Cases of Overlap
When a person, who enjoys a personal immunity and has committed a criminal act covered also by functional immunity, leaves office, the personal immunity is removed as usual. This is what happened in the Pinochet case before the House of Lords. Senator Pinochet was only able to be extradited to face charges that were not caught by the functional immunity (and also met the separate tests for extradition under English law).
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