- Type
- Act
- Year
- २०२७ BS · 1970 AD
- Status
- In force
- Category
- खण्ड १४: परराष्ट्र, शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद · Volume 14: Foreign Affairs, Education and Sports
- Official text
- Official page Official text (PDF)
- English translation
- Official English translation archived copy: the original page is no longer online
Translations may not include later amendments. The Nepali text is the authoritative law.
Analysis drawn from official reports, court rulings and published research, each cited. Figures are being double-checked against the source documents; corrections are welcome.
What does it do?
- The Act gives foreign states and their diplomatic missions in Nepal the privileges and immunities recognised by international law and practice. Mission premises are inviolable: Government officials may not enter without the head of mission's permission, and the Government must protect them from intrusion, damage or disturbance. Mission archives and official correspondence are inviolable, and mission premises owned or leased by the foreign state or head of mission are exempt from taxes.यो ऐनले अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय कानून र प्रचलनअनुसार विदेशी राज्य र तिनका कूटनीतिक नियोगलाई सुविधा र उन्मुक्ति दिन्छ। नियोगको घर र हाता अनतिक्रम्य हुन्छ: नियोग प्रमुखको अनुमतिबिना सरकारी कर्मचारी भित्र पस्न पाउँदैनन्, र त्यसमा अतिक्रमण, क्षति वा शान्ति भङ्ग हुनबाट जोगाउनु नेपाल सरकारको कर्तव्य हो। नियोगका अभिलेख र औपचारिक पत्रव्यवहार अनतिक्रम्य हुन्छन्, र विदेशी राज्य वा नियोग प्रमुखको स्वामित्व वा भाडामा रहेको नियोगको घरहातामा कर लाग्दैन। Nepal Law Commission Preamble; Sections 3–6, pp. 1–3
- Diplomatic agents are personally inviolable, as are their private homes, and are immune from Nepal's criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction, except in cases about their private immovable property in Nepal, private inheritance matters, or commercial activity outside their official functions; they cannot be compelled to testify. They are exempt from most taxes and, under Government notices, from customs duties. Family members, administrative and technical staff, service staff and private servants receive graded privileges.कूटनीतिक प्रतिनिधि र तिनको निजी आवास अनतिक्रम्य हुन्छन्, र नेपालभित्रको निजी अचल सम्पत्ति, व्यक्तिगत हैसियतमा उठेको अंशबण्डा वा उत्तराधिकार, वा औपचारिक कामबाहेकको व्यापार–व्यवसायसम्बन्धी मुद्दाबाहेक उनीहरूलाई नेपालको फौजदारी, देवानी र प्रशासकीय अधिकारक्षेत्रबाट उन्मुक्ति हुन्छ; उनीहरूलाई साक्षी बक्न कर लाग्दैन। उनीहरूलाई अधिकांश करमा छुट र सरकारी सूचनाअनुसार भन्सार महसुलमा छुट हुन्छ। परिवारका सदस्य, प्रशासकीय तथा प्राविधिक कर्मचारी, कामदार कर्मचारी र निजी सेवकले तहअनुसार सुविधा पाउँछन्। Nepal Law Commission Sections 7–16, pp. 3–7
- Diplomats who are Nepali citizens or permanent residents get immunity only for official acts unless the Government grants more. By Gazette notice the Government may grant additional privileges, and may extend the Act's privileges to other foreign nationals, international organisations and their staff, and consuls; it grants privileges on a reciprocal basis as far as possible.नेपाली नागरिक वा नेपालका स्थायी बासिन्दा भएका कूटनीतिक प्रतिनिधिले सरकारले थप दिएकोमा बाहेक आफ्नो कर्तव्यपालनका सिलसिलामा गरेको औपचारिक कामका लागि मात्र उन्मुक्ति पाउँछन्। सरकारले राजपत्रमा सूचना प्रकाशित गरी थप सुविधा दिन, र यो ऐनका सुविधा अन्य विदेशी नागरिक, अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय संघसंस्था र तिनका कर्मचारी तथा वाणिज्यदूतलाई पनि दिन सक्छ; सुविधा सकेसम्म पारस्परिकताका आधारमा दिइन्छ। Nepal Law Commission Sections 17–18, p. 7
Gaps, loopholes and improvement ideas
None documented in the official reports we have reviewed so far.
Where does it conflict with other laws?
No conflict with another law is documented in the sources we have reviewed so far.