Statutory Rules 1986
No. 1841
European
Economic Community (Declaration
as
an Overseas Organization) Regulations
WHEREAS
it is desirable to declare the European Economic Community to be an overseas
organization to which the International
Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 applies so that, where a
person attends an international conference (within the meaning of that Act)
convened by an international organization to which that Act applies as a
representative of the European Economic Community, that person may have such
privileges and immunities as are conferred by that Act or the Regulations under
that Act on a person who is in attendance at, or has attended, an international
conference convened by that international organization as a representative of
an overseas organization to which that Act applies:
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 17 July 1986.
N. M. STEPHEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency's
Command,
Bill
Hayden
Minister
of State for Foreign Affairs
Citation
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the European Economic Community (Declaration as an Overseas
Organization) Regulations.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“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;
(S.R. 146/86)—Cat. No. 10/3.6.1986
“the
Act” means the International
Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.
Declaration for purposes of section
5a of the Act
3. For the purposes of
section 5a of the Act, the
European Economic Community is declared to be an overseas organization to which
the Act applies.
NOTE
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 25
July 1986.
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