Statutory Instruments
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES
Laid before Parliament in draft
Made
28th July 1980
Coming into Operation On a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of July 1980
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 10(1) of the International Organisations Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by sections 1 and 10(3) of the Act or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Eurocontrol (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 1980. It shall come into operation on the date on which the Protocol for the Amendment of the Additional Protocol to the "EURO-CONTROL" International Convention relating to Co-operation for the Safety of Air Navigation(1), signed at Brussels on 21st November 1978, enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom. That date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.
2. The Eurocontrol (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1970 shall be amended by inserting after Article 6 the following new Article:-
"7.-(1) The officers and servants of the Organisation shall, as from the date on which the salaries and emoluments received by them as officers and servants of the Organisation become subject to taxation by the Organisation for its benefit, enjoy exemption from income tax in respect of such salaries and emoluments.
(2) Nothing in this Article shall be interpreted as precluding such salaries and emoluments from being taken into account for the purpose of assessing the amount of taxation to be applied to income from other sources."
N. E. Leigh
Clerk of the Privy Council
This Order amends the Eurocontrol (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1970 by conferring exemption from income tax on the officers of Eurocontrol. It will enable Her Majesty's Government to give effect to the Protocol for the Amendment of the Additional Protocol to the "EUROCONTROL" International Convention relating to Co-operation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Cmnd. 7477).
Cmnd. 7477.