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3(1)A person who, as an official or member of staff of—
(a)a sovereign Power other than the United Kingdom, or the Government of such a Power, or
(b)an international organisation,
makes communications within section 2(3) on its behalf does not, by reason of those communications, carry on the business of consultant lobbying.
(2)An “international organisation” is any organisation which, for the purposes of section 1 of the International Organisations Act 1968, is declared to be (or is treated as being) an organisation of which—
(a)the United Kingdom, or Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, and
(b)at least one other sovereign Power, or the Government of such a Power,
are members.
(3)Regulations may specify other organisations which are to be “international organisations” for the purposes of this paragraph.
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