Antarctic Marine Living Resources Preparatory Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 2611

––––––––––

Antarctic Marine Living Resources Preparatory Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations

WHEREAS sub-section (1) of section 7 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 provides, among other things, that where—

(a) an international conference is, or is to be, held in Australia or in a Territory of the Commonwealth; and

(b) it appears to the Governor-General that the provisions of that Act other than that section do not, or may not, apply in relation to that conference but it is desirable that diplomatic privileges and immunities should be applicable in relation to that conference,

regulations made under that Act may declare the conference to be a conference to which that section applies:

AND WHEREAS an international conference known as the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Preparatory Meeting is to be held at Hobart in the State of Tasmania commencing on 10 September 1981:

AND WHEREAS it appears to me that the provisions of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 other than section 7 of that Act may not apply in relation to that conference but it is desirable that diplomatic privileges and immunities should be applicable in relation to that conference:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.

Dated 3 September 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

A. A. STREET

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Preparatory Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.

Declaration of international conference

2. The international conference known as the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Preparatory Meeting that is to be held at Hobart in the State of Tasmania commencing on 10 September 1981 is declared to be a conference to which section 7 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 applies.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette