PART III – STATUS AND PRIVILEGES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
10. Privileges and immunities
(2) The Deputy Registrar, and the staff of the International Criminal Court, counsels, experts, witnesses and other persons involved in proceedings before the International Criminal Court shall enjoy such privileges and facilities necessary for the performance of their functions in Mauritius as may be prescribed.
1. The Deputy Registrar, the staff of the Office of the Prosecutor and the staff of the Registry shall enjoy such privileges, immunities and facilities as are necessary for the independent performance of their functions. They shall be accorded:
2. States Parties shall not be obliged to exempt from income tax pensions or annuities paid to former Deputy Registrars, members of the staff of the Office of the Prosecutor, members of the staff of the Registry and their dependants.
(a) Immunity from personal arrest or detention and from seizure of their personal baggage;
(b) Immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words spoken or written and all acts performed by them in their official capacity, which immunity shall continue to be accorded even after termination of their employment with the Court;
(c) Inviolability for all official papers and documents in whatever form and materials;
(d) Exemption from taxation on the salaries, emoluments and allowances paid to them by the Court. States Parties may take these salaries, emoluments and allowances into account for the purpose of assessing the amount of taxes to be applied to income from other sources;
(e) Exemption from national service obligations;
(f) Together with members of their families forming part of their household, exemption from immigration restrictions or alien registration;
(g) Exemption from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles the import or export of which is prohibited by the law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the State Party concerned; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the official concerned;
(h) The same privileges in respect of currency and exchange facilities as are accorded to the officials of comparable rank of diplomatic missions established in the State Party concerned;
(i) Together with members of their families forming part of their household, the same repatriation facilities in time of international crisis as are accorded to diplomatic agents under the Vienna Convention;
(j) The right to import free of duties and taxes, except payments for services, their furniture and effects at the time of first taking up post in the State Party in question and to re-export their furniture and effects free of duties and taxes to their country of permanent residence.