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s.10
Freedom of communication
(1)
A person to whom this Ordinance applies may employ all appropriate means of
communication, including the use of a diplomatic courier, diplomatic bags and
messages in code or cypher, in maintaining contact with the Government of the
United Kingdom and any British diplomatic mission or consular post wherever
situated.
(Amended
81 of 1999 s. 3
)
(2)
Every diplomatic courier shall be provided with a document indicating his
status and the number of packages constituting any diplomatic bag carried by
him.
(3)
The packages constituting the diplomatic bag shall bear visible external
marks indicating their status and may contain only documents or articles
intended for official use.
(4)
No diplomatic bag used by or addressed to a person to whom this Ordinance
applies shall be opened or detained.
(5)
The person of a diplomatic courier shall be inviolable and he shall not be
liable to arrest or
detention.
(6)
The Government of the United Kingdom or any person to whom this Ordinance
applies may appoint special diplomatic couriers and the provisions of
subparagraphs
(2), (3), (4) and (5) shall mutatis mutandis apply to such couriers until any
diplomatic bag carried by them has been delivered.
(Amended
81 of 1999 s. 3
)