Statutory Rules
1986 No. 3591
South
Pacific Nuclear Free Zone
Consultative
Committee (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
11 December 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 South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Consultative Committee
(Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears—
“Committee”
means the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Consultative Committee;
“the
Act” means the International
Organizations (Privileges and Immunities)Act 1963.
Act to apply to 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
(S.R.202/86)—Cat.
No. 12/10.7.1986
(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
persons working with the Committee
5.
(1) A person who is participating in the
work of the Committee or is performing, whether alone
or jointly
with other persons, a mission on behalf of the Committee has the privileges and
immunities specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Part I of the Fifth
Schedule to the Act.
(2)A person who has participated in the work of the Committee or who has
performed a mission on behalf of the Committee has the immunities specified in
Part II of the Fifth Schedule to the Act.
Waiver
6. The Committee may waive
any privileges and immunities to which a person upon whom privileges and
immunities are conferred by regulation 5 is entitled by virtue of the Act or
these Regulations.
NOTES
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette on 19 December 1986.
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