The Immigration (Exemption From Control) Order 1972
This Order exempts certain classes of persons from some or all of the provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 relating to those who are not patrial. The Order contains provisions corresponding broadly to those in the Aliens (Foreign Representatives) Direction 1963 (S.I. 1963/2133, as amended) and the Commonwealth Immigrants (Control of Immigration) Exemption Order 1965 (S.I. 1965/153) which cease to have effect on the coming into force of Part I of the 1971 Act. The persons covered by the Order fall into three categories. The first relates to persons who are exempt from all such provisions of the 1971 Act and comprises consular officers and consular employees in the service of states with which consular conventions have been concluded and members of their families forming part of their households (Article 3).