1. This Order may be cited as the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) Order 2017 and shall come into force on the day after that on which it is made.
2. The international headquarters and defence organisations specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated for the purposes of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964.
3. The headquarters and organisations specified in the Schedule to this Order shall have the like privileges as respects inviolability of official archives as are accorded to an envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to Her Majesty.
4. Each of the headquarters specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order shall have the legal capacity of a body corporate.
5.—(1) Each of the headquarters specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order shall have immunity from any legal process subjecting any funds or other property belonging to it or under its control to any measure of execution or detention.
(2) The preceding paragraph shall not prevent—
(a)the seizure of any article connected with an offence; or
(b)the seizure of any article under the laws relating to customs or excise.
6. The International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) Order 1965(1), The International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 1987(2) and The International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2009(3) are hereby revoked.
Ceri King
Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council