07-12-2007, 09:09 PM
<center>The Diplomatic Immunity Act 2007
An Act to afford foreign diplomats immunity to prosecution under the law.</center>
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. This Act may be cited as the Diplomatic Immunity Act 2007.
2. For the purposes of this Act,
( a ) a “foreign state” is any entity publicly recognized as a sovereign nation by the Kingdom of Hanover;
( b ) a “diplomat” is any person formally and lawfully accredited by the Kingdom of Hanover as the official representative and plenipotentiary of a foreign state; and
( c ) “diplomatic immunity” is the privilege of immunity from prosecution for any offence under the laws of Hanover, and the protection of internal diplomatic documents from search or seizure by the Kingdom of Hanover.
3. A diplomat shall enjoy diplomatic immunity until such a time as he is
( a ) recalled by the foreign state he represents; or
( b ) expelled from the Kingdom of Hanover.
4. Diplomats shall, upon request, be granted a permanent public forum on the national discussion fora, and shall be given the administration of the same forum.
5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing a foreign state from waiving the diplomatic immunity of the diplomat or diplomats thereof.
6. His Majesty may, by an Order given in his Privy Council, withdraw the privileges granted by this Act from the diplomat or diplomats of a foreign state, if the same does not accord equal privileges to the diplomats of Hanover.
An Act to afford foreign diplomats immunity to prosecution under the law.</center>
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. This Act may be cited as the Diplomatic Immunity Act 2007.
2. For the purposes of this Act,
( a ) a “foreign state” is any entity publicly recognized as a sovereign nation by the Kingdom of Hanover;
( b ) a “diplomat” is any person formally and lawfully accredited by the Kingdom of Hanover as the official representative and plenipotentiary of a foreign state; and
( c ) “diplomatic immunity” is the privilege of immunity from prosecution for any offence under the laws of Hanover, and the protection of internal diplomatic documents from search or seizure by the Kingdom of Hanover.
3. A diplomat shall enjoy diplomatic immunity until such a time as he is
( a ) recalled by the foreign state he represents; or
( b ) expelled from the Kingdom of Hanover.
4. Diplomats shall, upon request, be granted a permanent public forum on the national discussion fora, and shall be given the administration of the same forum.
5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing a foreign state from waiving the diplomatic immunity of the diplomat or diplomats thereof.
6. His Majesty may, by an Order given in his Privy Council, withdraw the privileges granted by this Act from the diplomat or diplomats of a foreign state, if the same does not accord equal privileges to the diplomats of Hanover.