Statutory Rules
1984 No. 4761
South
Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency
(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
21 December 1984.
N. M. STEPHEN
Governor-General
By
His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd)
Bill Hayden
Minister
of State for Foreign Affairs
Citation
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (Privileges and
Immunities) Regulations.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears—
“the
Act” means the International
Organizations (Privileges and
Immunities) Act 1963;
“the
Agency” means the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency.
Act to apply to Agency
3. The Agency is declared
to be an international organization to which the Act applies.
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Privileges and immunities of
officers of Agency
4. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), a person who holds an office in
the Agency has the privileges and immunities specified in paragraph 2 of Part I
of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.
(2) The salary and
emoluments received from the Agency by a person who holds an office in the
Agency, 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 the duties of the office in the Agency held by him.
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette on 11 January 1985.
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