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Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act, 1962 🇳🇬

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Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act, 1962

  • Published in Official Gazette supplement 106 on 31 December 1962
  • Commenced on 27 December 1962
  • [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]
An Act to consolidate and amend certain enactments relating to diplomatic immunities and privileges.

Part I – Diplomatic immunities and privileges Immunities of foreign envoys and consular officers

1. Immunities of foreign envoys, etc.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, every foreign envoy and every foreign consular officer, the members of the families of those persons, the members of their official or domestic staff, and the members of the families of their official staff, shall be accorded immunity from suit and legal process and inviolability of residence and official archives to the extent to which they were respectively so entitled under the law in force in Nigeria immediately before the coming into operation of this Act.
(2)Any writ or process sued forth or prosecuted before or aft…

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