Coll 15/3(1) 'Egypt. Abolition of Capitulations in Montreux Conference and Convention 1937' [‎586r] (1176/1220)

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(f( ) unrestricted communication by radio or other telegraphy
telephony or any other means howsoever; and the necessary
facilities for maintaining such communications whether inside or
outside of British camps, including the laying of cables and land
lines; it is understood that the telegraph and telephone cables and
lines herein referred to will be situated in the areas where the British
p/^s are stationed, and that any connection with the Egyptian
system of telegraphs and telephones will be subject to arrangement
with the Egyptian Authorities;
(c) the right within British camps to generate light and power
for use in British camps, and to transmit and distribute such light
and power between the place of generation and any other British
cam p by means of cables, pipes or in any other way whatsoever;
(d) transmission, subject to the payment of the usual charges, of
telegrams and messages over the Egyptian State Telegraphs and
Telephones, in clear, in code or in cypher;
(e) use of the Egyptian State Railways upon the terms and subject
to the conditions now in force;
(/) the supply, maintenance and use of telephones as required,
as part of and connected with the Egyptian State Telephones service
and system, at the rates and upon the conditions now in force;
(g) entry into and departure from Egypt of members of His
Majesty’s Forces at all times without let or hindrance, subject only
to the production of a certificate showing membership of the British
Forces in cases when such members do not arrive or leave by a
British Man of War, Troopship. Freightship, or service aircraft,
Service Transport or as a formed body under command of an Officer,
Warrant Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer, or Petty Officer;
(h) the use of roads, bridges, canals, streams, lakes, waterways
and other bodies of water without the payment of dues, tolls "or
charges either by way of registration or otherwise for vehicles or water
borne craft used on His Majesty’s Service;
(i) port facilities free of payment for His Majesty’s Men of War,
Troopships, Freightships and Service Aircraft of an amphibian or
seaplane character;
(;) the same immunity regarding the official correspondence of
the British Forces and their couriers as is enjoyed in International
Law by the Diplomatic representatives of foreign States.
7.—(a) Members of the British Forces who are owners of real
property shall pay the same taxes, registration and transfer fees in
respect of such property and its produce as civilians of British
nationality;
(b) members of the British Forces shall pay in respect of any
privately owned radio receiving or transmitting apparatus the tax or
licence fee for the time being in force and applicable to such
apparatus;