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(1), 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 Telecommunications Satellite Organization “INTELSAT”(2) (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) and by the Operating Agreement Relating to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization “INTELSAT”(3) (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;

“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 is hereby revoked.

(1)

Cmnd. 7385.

(2)

Cmnd. 5416.

(3)

Cmnd. 5416.