Administration of the International Court of Just

UN General Assembly, Administration of the International Court of Just, A/RES/85, UN General Assembly, 11 December 1946, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1946/en/10237 [accessed 18 March 2025]
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I. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
85. Administration of the International Court of Just

The General Assembly, Resolves that the decision taken at the first part of the first session[1] fixing the emoluments of the judges in Netherlands florins remain unchanged; Directs that the annual salary of the Registrar of the International Court of Justice shall be assimilated to that of a top-ranking director of the Secretariat of the United Nations and shall accordingly be fixed at 29,150 Netherlands florins; and that the difference between the salary recommended by the Court (35,000 florins) and the salary approved by the General Assembly shall be paid to the Registrar as a non-pensionable allowance; Adopts the Travel and Subsistence Regulations of the International Court of Justice, as amended and reproduced in Annex I. Fifty-fifth plenary meeting,
11 December 1946

Annex I Travel and Subsistence Regulations of the International Court of Justice

Travel Expenses

1. The United Nations shall pay, subject to the conditions of these- regulations, the travel expenses of the members and of the Registrar of the International Court of Justice, necessarily incurred on duly authorized official journeys.

The following shall be deemed to be duly authorized official journeys:

(a) Where the person concerned takes up residence at the seat of the Court,

(i) A journey from his home, at the time of appointment, to the seat of the Court, in connexion with the transfer of his residence;

(ii) A return journey every second calendar year after the year of appointment from the seat of the Court to his home at the time of appointment;

(iii) A journey upon termination of appointment from the seat of the Court to his home at the time of appointment, or to any other place provided that the cost of the journey is not greater than the cost of a journey to his home at the time of appointment.

The above provisions apply also to members who take up residence in compliance with Article 23 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.

Where the wife and/or dependent children of a member of the Court or of the Registrar reside with him at the seat of the Court, the United Nations shall reimburse the travel expenses for journeys as above.

(b) Where a member of the Court does not reside at the seat of the Court, one return journey for himself and one near relative each year from his permanent residence to the seat of the Court, provided such journey is necessarily undertaken on official business at the decision of the Court or at the request of the President.

(c) When a session of the Court is held at a place other than the seat of the Court. the journey necessarily performed in attending the session.

(d) Other journeys on official business, undertaken with the authority of the President.

2. Travel expenses shall comprise actual transportation costs by ordinary first class transport on railroads, airlines, steamboat, and other usual means of conveyance, and shall include expenses normally incidental to transportation, e.g., taxicab fares from station, et cetera. The cost of transportation of baggage in excess of weight or size carried free by transportation companies will not be allowable as an expense unless the excess is necessarily carried for official business reasons.

3. All travel will be by the most direct route, provided that travel by other routes may be allowed under written authority of the President when the official necessity therefore is satisfactorily established, but in other cases the travel expenses and subsistence allowance payable shall not exceed the amounts which would have been payable had the journey been by the most direct route.

Subsistence Allowances

4. A per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence expenses shall be paid to members of the Court and to the Registrar while in official travel status under Regulation 1 (a) (i), 1 (a) (iii), 1 (a) or 1 (d) above. The per diem will be regarded as covering all charges for meals, lodging, fees and gratuities, and other personal expenses.

5. The rates of subsistence allowance shall be for each period of twenty-four hours after the time of departure:

(a) For the President $25 (U. S.), or the equivalent thereof in other currency;

(b) For other members of the Court $20 (U. S.), or the equivalent thereof in other currency;

(c) For the Registrar $15 (U. S.), or the equivalent thereof in other currency, provided that where he accompanies a member of the Court he shall receive $20 (U. S.), or the equivalent thereof in other currency.

Where the traveller receives either full subsistence (i.e., breakfast, lunch and dinner) or accommodation (but not both), the cost of which is payable by the United Nations, the rates of allowance shall be reduced to $12 (U. S) or the equivalent thereof in other currency. Where the traveller receives both full subsistence and accommodation, the cost of which is payable by the United Nations (e.g. where the cost of passage includes both), he shall be paid a daily allowance of $3 (U. S.), or the equivalent thereof in other currency.

6.

(a) Where a member of the Court or the Registrar, undertaking an official journey, is accompanied by his wife and/or dependent children, under Regulation 1 (a) (i) or 1 (a) (iii) a subsistence allowance of one-half of the appropriate rate payable to the member of the Court or to the Registrar in respect of that journey will be payable in respect of each dependent;

(b) Where dependents are travelling unaccompanied on an authorized journey under Regulation 1 (a) (i) or 1 (a) (iii), the full rate of subsistence allowance will be payable in respect of one adult and one-half of that rate to each other dependent.

Application and Duration of Subsistence Allowances

7. Subsistence allowances shall be payable while the traveller is in travel status, i.e., while performing temporary duty at a place to and from which it is impracticable for him to travel daily from his home or from the seat of the Court, provided that no allowance shall be payable in respect of periods of leave or absence taken during periods of temporary duty.

Submission and Payment of Accounts

8. A detailed expense account must be rendered in support of each claim for re-imbursement of travel expenses or subsistence allowance as soon as possible after completion of the trip. The claims should show every item of expense except where such expenses are to be covered by a subsistence allowance, and every advance drawn from any United Nations source, and must, as far as possible, be supported by receipts showing the service to which the payment is related. All expenses must be shown in the actual currency in which they were made and must be certified as having been necessarily and solely incurred in the discharge of the official business of the Court.

Effective Date

9. These regulations shall become effective as of 1 January 1947. Journeys completed before that date shall be dealt with under the Travel Regulations of the Permanent Court of International justice.

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[1] Document A/29.
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