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Office incur an indirect tax on goods and services, which have been purchased by ADB for the purpose of meeting its requirements in performing the activities laid down in the Charter, the Government will refund to ADB or the Office in full the amount of any such indirect taxes. The procedure regarding such refund will not be less favorable than that applicable to any diplomatic mission or international organization in Australia.

7.4 Nothing in this Arrangement shall be deemed to affect the application of any law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory of the Commonwealth relating to quarantine, or prohibiting or restricting the importation into, or the exportation from, Australia or that Territory, as the case may be, of any animals, plants or goods. However, this clause does not prejudice the immunity from suit and every form of legal process conferred to ADB and ADB officers by the Charter and this Arrangement. Moreover, ADB will be accorded a treatment which will not be less favorable than that applicable to any diplomatic mission or international organization in Australia.

8. FINANCIAL FACILITIES

8.1 Notwithstanding financial controls, regulations or moratoria of any kind, ADB may, in Australia, freely:

     (a) purchase, hold and dispose of any funds, currencies, financial instruments and securities, operate accounts in any currency, engage in financial transactions and conclude financial contracts; and

     (b) transfer its funds, currencies, financial instruments, and securities, to or from Australia, from or to any other country or within Australia and convert any currency held by it into any other currency.

8.2. For the purposes of meeting local currency expenditures in Australia for the establishment and maintenance of the Office Seat and for the effective discharge of the functions of the Office and the operations of ADB, ADB may utilize any portion of the subscriptions of Australia to the capital stock of ADB which have been paid in the national currency of Australia in accordance with paragraph 2(b) of Article 6 of the Charter.

9. FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY

9.1 ADB will have the right to convene meetings within the Office Seat, or with the concurrence of the appropriate authorities of Australia, elsewhere in Australia.

9.2 At meetings convened by ADB, the Government will ensure that no impediment is placed in the way of full freedom of discussion and decision.

10. COMMUNICATIONS

10.1 ADB will enjoy in Australia for its official communications treatment not less favorable than that accorded by the Government to any other international organization or diplomatic mission in Australia, in the matter of priorities, rates and surcharges on mail, cables, telegrams, telexes, radiograms, telefax, telephone and other means of communications, and press rates for information to the press and radio.

10.2 ADB will