INTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1979
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1979/911 |
| Year | 1979 |
1979 No. 911
DIPLOMATIC AND INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES
AND PRIVILEGES
The INTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 197926thJuly 1979
On a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes
At the Court of Saint James, the 26th day of July 1979
Present,
The Counsellors of State in Council
Whereas Her Majesty, in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the 16th day of July 1979, to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty's absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty's behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty's approval for anything for which Her Majesty's approval in Council is required:
And whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 10(1) of the International Organisations Act 1968(a) (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 5 of the Act and all other powers enabling Her Majesty, and by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, do on Her Majesty's behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
PART I
GENERAL
1. This Order may be cited as the INTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1979. It shall come into operation on the date on which the Protocol on INTELSAT Privileges, Exemptions and Immunities(b), opened for signature at Washington on 19th May 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol) enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom. That date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.
2.—(1) For the purposes of this Order, the official activities of the Organisation means those authorised by the Agreement Relating to the International
(a) 1968 c. 48.
(b) Cmnd. 7385.
Telecommunications Satellite Organization "INTELSAT"(a) (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) and by the Operating Agreement Relating to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization "INTELSAT"(a) (hereinafter referred to as the Operating Agreement).
(2) In this Order:
"the 1961 Convention Articles" means the Articles (being certain Articles of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations signed in 1961) which are set out in Schedule 1 to the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964(b);
"the exempted items" means communication satellites and components and parts for such satellites to be launched for use in the global telecommunications satellite system referred to in paragraph (a) of Article II of the Agreement.
3. The INTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1972(c) is hereby revoked.
PART II
THE ORGANISATION
4. The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation "INTELSAT" (hereinafter referred to as the Organisation) is an organisation of which the United Kingdom and foreign sovereign Powers are members.
5. The Organisation shall have the legal capacities of...
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