INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT
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ECONOMIC
COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE FAR EAST (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS
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Statutory Rules 1968, No.
54(b)
Citation.
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (Privileges and
Immunities) Regulations.
Declaration
of Twenty-fourth Session of ECAFE.
2. The international
conference that is to be held at Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory
commencing on the seventeenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and
sixty-eight, being the conference known as the Twenty-fourth Session of the
United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, is declared to be
a conference to which section 7 of the International
Organizations (Privileges and
Immunities) Act 1963-1966
applies.
(b) Made under the International Organizations (Privileges and
Immunities) Act 1963-1966 on 17 April 1968; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17 April 1968.
The
form of introductory words used to make the Statutory Rule was as follows:
“Whereas
it is provided by section 7 of the International
Organizations (Privileges and
Immunities) Act 1963-1966 that
where an international conference is, or is to be, held in Australia or in a
Territory of the Commonwealth and 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, the regulations
may declare the conference to be a conference to which that section applies:
“And
whereas it appears to me that the provisions of that Act, other than section 7
of that Act may not apply in relation to the international conference referred
to in the following Regulations but it is desirable that diplomatic privileges
and immunities should be applicable in relation to that conference :
“Now
therefore I, the Governor-General in and over 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