3.4 Legal Personality of Specialized Agencies

Each agency — a treaty-created person on the international plane: the constituent convention's personality clause (the capacity to contract, acquire property, and institute legal proceedings — the domestic face) and the international personality flowing from its functions (the Reparations logic applied by each relationship agreement). The privileges-and-immunities regime: the 1947 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies (the General Convention's mirror for the family — the functional necessity standard: the immunity needed for the function, not the dignity), the headquarters agreements, and the members' domestic implementing legislation. The personality's consequence in national courts: the agency may sue, hold, and be immune — the domestic-law bridge every host state builds. Nepal's note: the host of no agency HQ, but the party to the conventions and the beneficiary (and duty-bearer) of the immunities wherever the agencies operate.