Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 308

REGULATION UNDER THE DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES ACT 19671

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1967.

Dated this twenty-first day of October 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ANDREW PEACOCK

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

AMENDMENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES REGULATIONS2

Regulations 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is substituted:

Declaration of European Communities

• “3.

  (1) The group of organizations known as the European Communities is declared to be an international organization for the purposes of sub-section 5A (1) of the Act.

• “(2)

  The organ known as the Commission of the European Communities is specified in relation to the European Communities for the purposes of paragraph 5A (2) (b) of the Act.

• “(3)

  In this regulation —

‘Commission of the European Communities’ means the Commission established by the treaty known as the Treaty Establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities signed at Brussels on 8 April 1965;

‘European Atomic Energy Community’ means the Community established by the treaty known as the Treaty Establishing the European Atomic Energy Community signed at Rome on 25 March 1957;

‘European Coal and Steel Community’ means the Community established by the treaty known as the Treaty Establishing the European Coal and Steel Community signed at Paris on 18 April 1951;

‘European Communities’ means the group of organizations constituted by the European Atomic Energy Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community;

‘European Economic Community’ means the Community established by the treaty known as the Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community signed at Rome on 25 March 1957.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 October 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1967 No. 71.