International Coffee Organisation (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 214

REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963*

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 this fourteenth day of November 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ANDREW PEACOCK

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

 

INTERNATIONAL COFFEE ORGANIZATION (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the International Coffee Organization (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“ Organization ” means the International Coffee Organization;

“ the Act ” means the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.

International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act to apply to the Organization

3. The Organization is declared to be an international organization to which the Act applies.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 November 1978.

 

Organization to have juridical personality and legal capacities

4. The Organization—

(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 of the Organization

5. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), the Organization has the privileges specified in paragraph 5 of the First Schedule to the Act.

(2) The Organization is not, by virtue of sub-regulation (1), exempt from currency and exchange restrictions in respect of a transaction involving, or entered into for the purpose of—

(a) a dealing with funds of the nature of capital; or

(b) the making of, or any dealing with, an investment.