EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR MIGRATION (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
1990 No. 143
Statutory Rules 1990 issued by the authority of the Minister of State for Trade Negotiations for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Section 13 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
By regulations made under the Act in 1986 the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration was declared to be an international organisation for the purposes of the Act and granted privileges and immunities under the Act.
The Intergovernmental Committee for Migration has by resolution of member governments changed its name to the International Organization for Migration.
These regulations amend the 1986 regulations to reflect the change of name.
Details of the regulations are as follow:
Regulation 1 is a definition clause.
Regulation 2 amends the citation regulation to reflect the change of name.
Regulation 3 amends the interpretation provisions to reflect the change of name.
Regulation 4 amends the declaration of the Committee as an international organisation to reflect its change of name.
Regulation 5 amends the regulation conferring juridical personality and legal capacities on the Committee to reflect its change of name and to omit the words “with perpetual succession” from the paragraph conferring corporate juridical personality, in conformity with present drafting practice.
Regulation 6 amends the regulation conferring privileges and immunities on the Committee to reflect its new name.
Regulation 7 amends the regulation which confers privileges and immunities on officers of the Committee to reflect its change of name.