Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No-1511

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Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations

WHEREAS sub-section (1) of section 7 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 provides, among other things, that where—

(a) an international conference is, or is to be, held in Australia or in a Territory of the Commonwealth; and

(b) it appears to the Governor-General that the provisions of that Act other than that section do not, or may not, apply in relation to that conference but it is desirable that diplomatic privileges and immunities should be applicable in relation to that conference,

regulations made under that Act may declare the conference to be a conference to which that section applies;

AND WHEREAS an international conference known as the Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting is to be held at Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory commencing on 13 September 1983:

AND WHEREAS it appears to me that the provisions of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 other than section 7 of that Act may not apply in relation to that conference but it is desirable that diplomatic privileges and immunities should be applicable in relation to that conference:

NOW THEREFORE 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 25 August 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

B. HAYDEN

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

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Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.

Declaration for purposes of section 7 of the Act

2. The international conference known as the Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting that is to be held at Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory commencing on 13 September 1983 is declared to be a conference to which section 7 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 applies.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette