Consular Privileges and Immunities (Malaysian Education Offices) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1974 No. 80

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CONSULAR PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES ACT 1972-1973.*

WHEREAS section 13 of the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972-1973 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with that Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by that Act to be prescribed:

AND WHEREAS paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of section 9 of the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972-1973 provides that regulations may confer on a post established in Australia by the Government of a declared Commonwealth country, being a post that is not entitled to any privileges or immunities under that Act or under the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1967-1973 and appears to the Governor-General to exercise functions substantially corresponding to functions exercised by a consular post, all or any of the privileges and immunities that are conferred by the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972-1973 on a consular post:

AND WHEREAS Malaysia is, by the Consular Privileges and Immunities (Commonwealth Countries) Regulations, declared to be a Commonwealth country:

AND WHEREAS the Government of Malaysia has established at Melbourne in the State of Victoria and at Perth in the State of Western Australia posts respectively known as the Malaysian Education Office, Melbourne, and the Malaysian Education Office, Perth, each being a post that is not entitled to any privileges or immunities under the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972-1973 or under the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1967-1973:

AND WHEREAS each of the said posts appears to me to exercise functions substantially corresponding to functions exercised by a consular post:

NOW THEREFORE I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972-1973:

Dated this fifteenth day of May, 1974.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. R. WILLESEE

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

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* Notified in theAustralian Government Gazette