International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 1998 1998 No. 251
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1998 No. 251
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Foreign Affairs
International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963
International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 1998
Section 13 of the International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) was established by an Agreement to Constitute the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management on 22 April 1993 (Agreement). Australia's Instrument of Accession was deposited on 16 January 1996. The Agreement has not yet entered into force.
The Agreement requires parties to recognize the international legal personality of ICLARM.
The International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (Privileges and immunities) Regulations 1998 declare ICLARM to be an "international organisation" to which the Act applies, and confer upon ICLARM legal personality and capacity to enable it to exercise its powers and perform its functions in Australia.
The Regulations will commence on gazettal.