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legal capacities

  The Organisation:
 (a)  is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and
 (b) has the capacity to contract; and
 (c) is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property and of instituting legal proceedings.

5 Privileges and immunities of the Organisation

 (1) Subject to subregulations (2), (3) and (4), the Organisation has the privileges and immunities specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11 of the First Schedule to the Act.

 (2) The Organisation is not, by virtue of subregulation (1), exempt from such national, regional or municipal dues and taxes in respect of the premises of the Organisation, whether owned or leased, as represent payment for specific services rendered.

 (3) Where goods (not being publications of the Organisation) are imported, manufactured or purchased by the Organisation for sale by it, subregulation (1) does not operate to prevent sales tax being payable by the Organisation or by any other person upon the sale value of the goods.

 (4) The Organisation's privileges in relation to indirect tax are limited to:
 (a) the exemption conferred by section 11B of the Act; and
 (b) concessions under section 11C of the Act in relation to acquisitions mentioned in subregulation 10A (1).

6 Privileges and immunities of the Secretary-General of the Organisation

 (1) The office of Secretary-General of the Organisation is a high office in the Organisation.

 (2) A person who holds, or is performing the duties of, the office of Secretary-General of the Organisation has the privileges and immunities specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Act.

 (3) A person who has ceased to hold, or perform the duties of, the office of Secretary-General of the Organisation has the immunities specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Act.

7 Privileges and immunities of a Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation

 (1) The office of Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation is a high office in the Organisation.

 (2) A person who holds, or is performing the duties of, the office of Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation has the privileges and immunities specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Act to the extent that those privileges and immunities are accorded to a member of the diplomatic staff of a diplomatic mission, being a member of comparable diplomatic rank.

 (3) A person who has ceased to hold, or perform the duties of, the office of Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation has the immunities specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Act.

8 Privileges and immunities of representatives to the Organisation

 (1) A person who is accredited to, or is in attendance at