The Privileges and Immunities (Regional Centre for Services in Surveying and Mapping) Order

Legal Notice 183 of 1975

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Legal Notice 183 of 1975
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Privileges and Immunities Act
Date
31 December 2022
Language
English
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Legal Notice
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LAWS OF KENYA

PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES ACT

THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES (REGIONAL CENTRE FOR SERVICES IN SURVEYING AND MAPPING) ORDER

LEGAL NOTICE 183 OF 1975

  • Published in Kenya Gazette Vol. LXXVII—No. 52 on 5 December 1975
  • Commenced on 5 December 1975
  1. [Revised by 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023) on 31 December 2022]
1.This Order may be cited as the Privileges and Immunities (Regional Centre for Services in Surveying and Mapping) Order.
2.In this Order—"Centre" means the Regional Centre for Services in Surveying and Mapping established by an Agreement made at Nairobi between the governments of certain sovereign states in eastern and central Africa, including the Government of Kenya, which came into force on 18th April, 1975."senior officer of the Centre" means any officer of the Centre holding the post of deputy assistant head of a technical department or any post above the post of deputy assistant head of a technical department.
3.The Centre is hereby declared to be an organization of which the Government of Kenya and other foreign governments are members.
4.The Centre shall have—
(a)the legal capacities of a body corporate; and
(b)the privileges and immunities specified in Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.
5.The exemption from rates and taxes made under paragraph 3 of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Act shall, notwithstanding paragraph 4(b), be like, and be limited to, the exemption made under Articles 23 and 28 of the First Schedule to the Act.
6.Any persons who are representatives (whether of governments or not) on any organ of the Centre or are members of any committee of the Centre or of an organ thereof, other than as a representative of the Government of Kenya or as a member of the staff of such representative, and who are specified in a notice in the Gazette pursuant to section 9(4)(a) of the Act, shall have the Privileges and immunities specified in Part II of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.
7.Any senior officer of the Centre who is not—
(a)a resident of Kenya except solely for the purpose of rendering services to the Centre: or
(b)having dealings with the Centre as the representative of the Government of Kenya or as a member of the staff of such representative, shall have the privileges and immunities specified in Part III of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.
8.The exemption from tax or duty on importation made under paragraph 7 of Part III of the Fourth Schedule to the Act shall, notwithstanding paragraph 7, be like, and be limited to, the exemption made under paragraph 5(3) of Part A of the Third Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act (Repealed).
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History of this document

31 December 2022 this version
05 December 1975
Published in Kenya Gazette 52
Commenced