Section 11: Immunities, etc., of certain international organisations, etc.

(1) This section shall apply to any organisation declared by the Minister by Order to be an organisation the members of which are sovereign powers (whether foreign sovereign Powers or Commonwealth countries) or the government or governments thereof.
(2) The Minister may, from time to time, by Order in the Federal Gazette-
(a) provide that any organisation to which this section applies (hereinafter referred to as "the organisation") shall, to such extent as may be specified in the Order, have the immunities and privileges set out in the First Schedule to this Act, and shall also have the legal capacities of a body corporate; [First Schedule.]
(b) confer upon-
(i) any persons who are representatives (whether of governments or not) of any organ of the organisation or at any conference convened by the organisation or of any organ thereof;
(ii) such officers or classes of officers of the organisation as are specified in the Order, being the holders of such high offices in the organisation as are so specified;
(iii) such persons employed on missions on behalf of the organisation as are specified in the Order -
to such extent as are specified in the Order, the immunities and privileges specified in the Second Schedule to this Act;
[Second Schedule.)
(c) confer upon such other classes of officers and servants of the organisation as specified in the Order, the immunities and privileges specified in the Third Schedule to this Act to such extent as are so specified,
[Third Schedute.]
and the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of extending to the staff of such representatives and members as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of this subsection and to the families of officers of the organisation any immunities and privileges conferred on the representatives, members, or officers under that paragraph, except in so far as the operation of the said Fourth Schedule is excluded by the Order conferring the immunities and privileges.
[Fourth Schedule]
(3) Nothing in this section shall authorise the making of any Order to confer immunity or privilege upon any person as the representative of the Government of Nigeria or as a member of the staff of such a representative.
(4) This section shall also extend to the international organisations known as "National Liberation Movements" (hereinafter referred to as "the movements") and accordingly it shall have effect as if-
(a) the reference in subsection (1) to an organisation in respect of which the Minister may make an order includes a reference to the movements; and
(b) the persons described in subsection (2) (b) (iii) thereof includes persons, classes or groups of persons connected with the movements and specified by name or otherwise or described by reference to their professions or undertakings.
(5) For the avoidance of doubt, the Notices and Orders in Council in the Fifth Schedule to this Act made or issued under the authority of any Act repealed by this Act shall, with all necessary modifications, be deemed to have been made by the Minister as Orders under this section; and such Notices and Orders in Council shall have effect accordingly but may at any time be amended, revoked or replaced by the Minister.
[Fifth Schedule.]