After section 4A of the 1968 Act there is inserted—
(1)This section applies to any body—
(a)established under Title V (provisions on a common foreign and security policy) or Title VI (provisions on police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters) of the Treaty on European Union signed at Maastricht on 7th February 1992 as amended from time to time; and
(b)in relation to which the United Kingdom, or Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, has obligations by virtue of any instrument under that Treaty or by virtue of any agreement to which the United Kingdom, or Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, is a party (whether made with another sovereign Power or the Government of such a Power or not).
(2)Her Majesty may by Order in Council make any one or more of the following provisions in respect of a specified body to which this section applies—
(a)confer on the body the legal capacities of a body corporate;
(b)provide that the body shall, to such extent as is specified, have such specified privileges and immunities as (having regard to the obligations referred to in subsection (1)(b)) it is in the opinion of Her Majesty in Council appropriate for the body to have;
(c)confer on such specified classes of persons mentioned in subsection (3), to such extent as is specified, such specified privileges and immunities as (having regard to those obligations) it is in the opinion of Her Majesty in Council appropriate to confer on them.
(3)The persons mentioned in subsection (2)(c) are—
(a)the body's officers or staff;
(b)other persons connected with the body,
and members of their families who form part of their households.
(4)In this section, “specified” means specified in the Order in Council.”