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[接上页] Section 4 The premises of the Council shall be inviolable. The property and assets of the Council, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference, whether by executive, administrative, judicial or legislative action. Section 5 The archives of the Council and in general all documents belonging to it or held by it, shall be inviolable, wherever located. Section 6 Without being restricted by financial controls, regulations or moratoria of any kind: (a) the Council may hold currency of any kind and operate accounts in any currency; (b) the Council may freely transfer its funds from one country to another or within any country and convert any currency held by it into any other currency. Section 7 The Council shall, in exercising its rights under section 6 above, pay due regard to any representations made by any of its Members and shall give effect to such representations in so far as it considers that this can be done without detriment to the interests of the Council. Section 8 The Council, its assets, income and other property shall be: (a) exempt from all direct taxes; it is understood, however, that the Council will not claim exemption from taxes which are, in fact, no more than charges for public utility services; (b) exempt from customs duties and prohibitions and restrictions on imports and exports in respect of articles imported or exported by the Council for its official use; it is understood, however, that articles imported under such exemption will not be sold in the country into which they are imported, except under conditions agreed by the Government of that country; (c) exempt from all customs duties and prohibitions and restrictions on import and exports in respect of its publications. Section 9 While the Council will not, as a general rule, claim exemption from excise duties and from taxes on the sale of movable and immovable property which form part of the price to be paid, nevertheless when the Council is making important purchases for official use of property on which such duties and taxes have been charged or are chargeable, Members of the Council will, whenever possible, make appropriate administrative arrangements for the remission or return of the amount of duty or tax. Article IV Facilities in respect of communications Section 10 The Council shall enjoy, in the territory of each of its Members, for its official communications, treatment not less favourable than that accorded by that Member to any other Government including the latter’s diplomatic mission, in the matter of priorities, rates and taxes on mails, cables, telegrams, radiograms, telephotos, telephone, and other communications, and press rates for information to the press and radio. Section 11 No censorship shall be applied to the official correspondence and other official communications of the Council. Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude the adoption of appropriate security precautions to be determined by agreement between the Council and any of its Members. Article V Representatives of members Section 12 Representatives of Members at meetings of the Council, the Permanent Technical Committee and committees of the Council shall, while exercising their functions and during their journeys to and from the place of meeting, enjoy the following privileges and immunities: (a) immunity from personal arrest or detention and from seizure of their personal baggage, and in respect of words spoken or written and all acts done by them in their official capacity, immunity from legal process of every kind; (b) inviolability for all papers and documents; (c) the right to use codes and to receive papers or correspondence by courier or in sealed bags; (d) exemption in respect of themselves and their spouses from immigration restrictions or aliens’ registration in the State which they are visiting or through which they are passing in the exercise of their functions; (e) the same facilities in respect of currency or exchange restrictions as are accorded to representatives of foreign Governments on temporary official missions; (f) the same immunities and facilities in respect of their personal baggage as are accorded to members of comparable rank of diplomatic missions. Section 13 In order to secure for the representatives of Members at meetings of the Council, the Permanent Technical Committee and committees of the Council complete freedom of speech and complete independence in the discharge of their duties, the immunity from legal process in respect of words spoken or written and all acts done by them in discharging their duties shall continue to be accorded, notwithstanding that the persons concerned are no longer engaged in the discharge of such duties. Section 14 Privileges and immunities are accorded to the representatives of Members, not |