Headquarters Agreement between the International Criminal Court and the host State:Article 18 Privileges, immunities and facilities of the Deputy Registrar and staff of the Court

Headquarters Agreement between the International Criminal Court and the host State

Article 18 Privileges, immunities and facilities of the Deputy Registrar and staff of the Court

Geldend

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1.

The Deputy Registrar and staff of the Court shall enjoy such privileges, immunities and facilities as are necessary for the independent performance of their functions. They shall be accorded:

a)

immunity from personal arrest or detention or any other restriction of their liberty, and from seizure of their personal baggage;

b)

immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words spoken or written and all acts performed by them in their official capacity, which immunity shall continue to be accorded even after termination of their employment with the Court;

c)

inviolability of all official papers, documents in whatever form and materials;

d)

exemption from taxation on salaries, emoluments and allowances paid to them in respect of their employment with the Court;

e)

exemption from national service obligations;

f)

together with members of their family forming part of their household, exemption from immigration restrictions or alien registration;

g)

exemption from inspection of their personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles the import or export of which is prohibited by the law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the host State; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the official concerned;

h)

the same privileges in respect of currency and exchange facilities as are accorded to the officials of comparable rank of diplomatic missions established in the host State;

i)

together with members of their family forming part of their household, the same repatriation facilities in time of international crisis as are accorded to diplomatic agents under the Vienna Convention;

j)

the right to import free of duties and taxes, except payments for services, their furniture and effects at the time of first taking up their post in the host State, and to re-export their furniture and effects free of duties and taxes to their country of permanent residence.

2.

Staff of the Court of P-5 level and above, and such additional categories of staff of the Court as may be designated, in agreement with the host State, by the Registrar, in consultation with the President and the Prosecutor, together with members of their family forming part of their household who are not nationals or permanent residents of the host State, shall be accorded the same privileges, immunities and facilities as the host State accords to diplomatic agents of comparable rank of the diplomatic missions established in the host State in conformity with the Vienna Convention.

3.

Staff of the Court of P-4 level and below shall be accorded the same privileges, immunities and facilities as the host State accords to members of the administrative and technical staff of diplomatic missions established in the host State, in conformity with the Vienna Convention, provided that the immunity from criminal jurisdiction and personal inviolability shall not extend to acts performed outside the course of their official duties.

4.

Where the incidence of any form of taxation depends upon residence, periods during which the Deputy Registrar and staff of the Court are present in the host State for the discharge of their functions shall not be considered as periods of residence.

5.

The host State shall not be obliged to exempt from income tax pensions or annuities paid to former Deputy Registrars, members of staff of the Court and their dependants.

6.

Without prejudice to paragraphs 1(d) and 4 of this article, persons referred to in this article who are nationals or permanent residents of the host State shall enjoy only the following privileges, immunities and facilities to the extent necessary for the independent performance of their functions:

a)

immunity from personal arrest or detention or any other restriction of their liberty;

b)

immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words spoken or written and all acts performed by them in the performance of their functions for the Court, which immunity shall continue to be accorded even after they have ceased to perform their functions for the Court;

c)

inviolability of all papers, documents in whatever form and materials relating to the performance of their functions for the Court;

d)

for the purposes of their communications with the Court the right to receive and send papers in whatever form;

e)

the right to import free of duties and taxes, except payments for services, their furniture and effects at the time of first taking up their post in the host State.

Persons referred to in this paragraph shall not be subjected by the host State to any measure which may affect the free and independent performance of their functions before the Court.

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