EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
ASSOCIATION OF TIN PRODUCING COUNTRIES (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS
STATUTORY RULES 1984 NO. 85 ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The Association of Tin Producing Countries was established by an Agreement drawn up in London on 29 March 1983, which entered into force on 16 August 1983. Australia signed the Agreement on 22 November 1983.
The objectives of the Association are to obtain renumerative and equitable returns to tin producers and adequate supplies to consumers at fair and stable prices, to facilitate cooperation in the marketing of tin, and to encourage technical developments in tin mining and manufacture. These objectives are to be achieved through joint marketing approaches, various research, development and promotion projects and through the collection and dissemination of information relating to tin and the tin industry.
Article 5 of the Agreement obliges Australia as a Member country of the Association to give to the Association such legal capacity as may be necessary for the exercise of its functions under the Agreement. In order for this to be done it is necessary to make regulations under the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.
Section 5 of the Act provides that regulations may be made to declare an international organization to be an international organization to which the Act applies. Section 6 of the Act provides, furthermore, that the regulations may confer upon such an international organization juridical personality and such legal capacities as are necessary for the exercise of the powers and the performance of its functions.
The regulations enclosed herewith have been prepared to give effect within Australia to the requirements of Article 5 of the Agreement.
Statutory Rules 1984