EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS BUREAU (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Statutory Rules 1989 No. 339 issued by the authority 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.
Section 5 of the Act provides that the regulations may declare an organisation to be an international organisation to which the Act applies.
The International Exhibitions Bureau was declared by regulation to be an international organisation for the purposes of the Act in 1973. The regulations were amended in 1986 to confer on representatives of governments attending EXPO 88, which was held between 30 April and 30 October 1988 in Brisbane, certain privileges and immunities.
The Regulations repeal the 1986 regulations as the purpose for which they were made has now passed.
Details of the Regulations are as follow:
This regulation repeals Regulations 5 and 6 of the International Exhibitions Bureau (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.