International Organisations Act 1968

7 Priority of telecommunications.U.K.

So far as may be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the International Telecommunication Convention done at Montreux on 12th November 1965 or any subsequent treaty or agreement whereby that Convention is amended or superseded, priority shall, wherever practicable, be given to messages from, and to replies to messages from, any of the following, that is to say—

(a)the Secretary General of the United Nations;

(b)the heads of principal organs of the United Nations; and

(c)the International Court of Justice.