The International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) Order 1965

• Citation: S.I. 1965/1535
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) Order 1965 , and shall come into operation at the expiration of thirty days beginning with the day on which it is made.

Section 2 Designation of headquarters

The international headquarters and defence organisation specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated for the purposes of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964.

Section 3 Inviolability of archives

The headquarters and organisation specified in the Schedule to this Order shall have the like privileges as respects inviolability of official archives as are accorded to an envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to Her Majesty.

Section 4 Legal capacity

Each of the headquarters specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order shall have the legal capacity of a body corporate.

Section 5 Extent of immunity from legal process

(1) Each of the headquarters specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order shall have immunity from any legal process subjecting any funds or other property belonging to it or under its control to any measure of execution or detention.

(2) The preceding paragraph shall not prevent—

(a) the seizure of any article connected with an offence; or

(b) the seizure of any article under the laws relating to customs or excise.