0 a container in which letters are sent between diplomats without being examined by customs officials --
Explanatory statements are sent to the appellate authorities by diplomatic bag and this arrangement will continue.
It is therefore clear, as a matter of construction and as a matter of law, that it is not permissible to inspect the diplomatic bag.
If the law means that we can electronically scan a diplomatic bag, we should do that.
It was obvious that that diplomatic bag had been used for this purpose on previous occasions.
It means that a railway wagon or a cargo plane can be construed as a diplomatic bag if it carries the official seal.
Neither does the diplomatic bag have all that much exemption.
The use of the diplomatic bag for business or other non-official matter is as a general rule prohibited.
Secondly, there is the sanctity of the mission's communications, in which is included the diplomatic bag.
