International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Cth)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS
- Reprinted as at 31 March 1981 (HISTREG CHAP 126 #DATE 31:03:1981)

*1* The International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (in

force under the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act
1963) as shown in this reprint comprise Statutory Rules 1959 No. 20 as amended
by the other Statutory Rules specified in the following table:
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Date of Application,
saving
Year and notification in Date of or transitional
number Gazette commencement provisions
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1961 No. 64 11 May 1961 11 May 1961 -
1963 No. 13 25 Feb 1963 25 Feb 1963 -
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - TABLE OF 
PROVISIONS 
TABLE

                             TABLE  OF  PROVISIONS


Regulation

  1.          Citation

  1A.         Interpretation

  2.          United Nations to be a body corporate, &c.

  3.          Privileges and immunities

  4.          Evidence

  5.          Prescribed authorities that have juridical personality and
legal

              capacity



                                 THE  SCHEDULE



                          International Organizations



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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - SECT. 1. 
Citation 


  1. These Regulations may be cited as the International Organizations
(Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.*1*


See notes to first article of this Chapter.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - SECT. 
1A. Interpretation 

Inserted by 1963 No. 13


  1A. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears,  "Australia
" includes the Territories of the Commonwealth.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - SECT. 2. 
United Nations to be a body corporate, &c. 


  2. (1) The United Nations-



  (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.


  (2) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially in Australia shall take
judicial notice of the seal of the United Nations affixed to a document and
shall presume that it was duly affixed.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - SECT. 3. 
Privileges and immunities 


  3. (1) The United Nations or a person in relation to whom the Convention
applies has, in Australia, the privileges and immunities applicable under the
Convention to the United Nations or that person, as the case may be.


  (2) Where any Act, other than the International Organizations (Privileges
and Immunities) Act 1948,*2* makes provision in relation to privileges and
immunities of the United Nations or a person in relation to whom the
Convention applies, the last preceding sub-regulation does not confer any
privileges or immunities in relation to matters arising under that
first-mentioned Act.


*2* R. 3 (2)-The International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act

1948 was repealed by the International Organizations (Privileges and
Immunities) Act 1963 (No. 50, 1963).



   Section 2 of that Act provides as follows:



    "2. (1) The International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act
1948 and the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1960
are

repealed.



    "(2) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, regulations made under
the

Acts repealed by the last preceding sub-section and in force immediately
before

the commencement of this Act continue in force as if those Acts had not been

repealed but regulations so continued in force may be repealed by regulations

made under this Act.



    "(3) Where regulations are made under this Act conferring privileges or

immunities upon an international organization to which this Act applies or
upon

a person, any regulations continued in force by the last preceding
sub-section

that also confer privileges or immunities upon that organization or person
cease to have effect in relation to that organization or person. ".

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - SECT. 4. 
Evidence 


  4. A certificate under the hand of the Minister certifying that, on a
specified date or during a specified period-



  (a)  a specified country was a Member of the United Nations;



  (b)  a specified body was a principal or subsidiary organ of the United
Nations;



  (c)  a specified conference was a conference convened by the United Nations;
or



  (d)  a specified person was-



      (i)  a representative of a Member of the United Nations to an organ of
the United Nations or a conference convened by the United Nations;



     (ii)  included in a category of officials of the United Nations to which
the provisions of Articles V and VII of the Convention applied; or



     (iii)  an expert (other than an official coming within the scope of
Article V of the Convention) performing a mission for the United Nations,



is evidence of the matter so certified.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - SECT. 5. 
Prescribed authorities that have juridical personality and legal capacity 

Added by 1961 No. 64


  5. Each of the international organizations specified in the Schedule to
these Regulations (being organizations of each of which either Australia or
the Government of the Commonwealth is a member) has-



  (a)  juridical personality; and



  (b)  such legal capacity as is necessary for the exercise of its functions
and the fulfilment of its purposes.


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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS - 
SCHEDULE 

Added by 1961 No. 64

SCH

                                 THE  SCHEDULE

                                                                    Regulation
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                          INTERNATIONAL  ORGANIZATIONS



  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization

  International Atomic Energy Agency

  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

  Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration

  International Development Association

  International Hydrographic Bureau

  International Institute of Refrigeration

  International Labour Organisation

  International Monetary Fund

  International Telecommunication Union

  International Tin Council

  International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property

  International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

  South East Asia Treaty Organization

  South Pacific Commission

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  Universal Postal Union

  World Health Organization

  World Meteorological Organization.

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