Bangladesh-Legal-Acts-Dataset / acts /act-print-227.json
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{
"act_title": "The United Nations (Privileges and Immunities) Act, 1948",
"act_no": "XX",
"act_year": "1948",
"publication_date": "19/07/2025",
"sections": [
{
"section_content": "1. This Act may be called theUnited Nations (Privileges and Immunities) Act, 1948."
},
{
"section_content": "2. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law, the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Act of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on the 13th day of February 1946, shall have the force of law in Bangladesh.(2) The Government may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, amend the Schedule in conformity with any amendments, duly made and adopted, of the provisions of the said Convention set out therein."
},
{
"section_content": "3. Where in pursuance of any international Agreement, convention or other instrument it is necessary to accord to any international organisation and its representatives and officers privileges and immunities in Bangladesh similar to those contained in the provision set out in the Schedule, the Government may, by notification in theofficial Gazette, declare that the provisions set out in the Schedule shall, subject to such modifications, if any, as it may consider necessary or expedient for giving effect to the said agreement, convention or other instrument apply mutatis mutandis to the international organisation specified in the notification and its representatives and officers, and thereupon the said provisions shall apply accordingly and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law, shall in such application have the force of law in Bangladesh."
},
{
"section_content": "4. The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act."
}
],
"footnotes": [
{
"footnote_text": "1Throughout this Act, the words “Bangladesh” and “Government” were substituted for the words “Pakistan” and “Central Government” respectively by section 3 and the Second Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No VIII of 1973)"
}
],
"copyright_info": {
"copyright_text": "Copyright©2019, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs DivisionMinistry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs"
},
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"how_got_power": "Constitutional succession",
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},
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"property_rights": "Abolition of zamindari system",
"revenue_system": "Direct government land revenue",
"peasant_status": "Farmers as direct tenants to state"
},
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"Zamindari abolition (1951)",
"Language movement legal issues (1952)",
"Military rule periods (1958-1971)",
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