Section 8: Reciprocal withdrawal of personal immunities.

Where it appears to the minister that any personal immunities conferred by law on a foreign envoy or foreign consular officer or a chief representative of a Commonwealth country, the members of the families of those persons, members of their official or domestic staff, and the members of the families of their official staff, or on persons coming under section 5 or section 6 of this Act, exceed in any respect those accorded in the territory of the foreign sovereign power concerned to an envoy or consular officer of the government or, as the case may be, in the Commonwealth country concerned to a chief representative of Nigeria or to Nigerian representatives attending a conference and to persons similarly connected with that envoy or that chief representative of Nigeria or those Nigerian representatives attending a conference the Minister may, by Order withdraw those personal immunities in the case of that Power or that Commonwealth country to such extent and in respect of such classes of persons as appear to the Minister to be proper.