Statutory Rules
1986 No. 691
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Intergovernmental
Committee for Migration (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations
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 April 1986.
N. M. STEPHEN
Governor-General
By
His Excellency’s Command,
BILL HAYDEN
Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs
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Citation
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (Privileges and
Immunities) Regulations.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears—
“Intergovernmental
Committee for Migration” means the organization established at Venice on 19
October 1953 under the name ‘Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration’;
“the
Act” means the International
Organizations (Privileges and
Immunities) Act 1963;
“the
Committee” means the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration.
Act to apply to the
Committee
3. The Committee is
declared to be an international organization to which the Act applies.
Committee to have
juridical personality and legal capacities
4. The Committee—
(a)
is a body corporate with perpetual succession;
(b)
has the capacity to contract; and
(c)
is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real
and personal property and of instituting legal proceedings.
Privileges and
immunities of the Committee
5. The Committee has the
privileges and immunities specified in paragraph 7 of the First Schedule to the
Act.
Privileges and
immunities of officers of the Committee
6. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), a person who holds an office in
the Committee has the privileges and immunities specified in paragraphs of the
Fourth Schedule to the Act.
(2) The salary and
emoluments received from the Committee by a person who holds an office in the
Committee, being a resident of Australia within the meaning of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, are not,
to the extent to which they are for services rendered in Australia, exempt from
taxation unless the person is not an Australian citizen and came to Australia
solely for the purpose of performing duties of the office in the Committee held
by that person.
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette