EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
INTERNATIONA L ORGANIZATIONS (DECLARATION) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
INTERNATIONAL TIN COUNCIL (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS
STATUTORY RULES 1982 154, 155 ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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 for matters for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
In pursuance of section 5 of the Act, the International Tin Council was declared to be an organization to which that Act applied in Statutory Rules 1981 No. 325, entitled International Organizations (Declaration) Regulations.
The purpose of the International Organizations (Declaration) Regulations (Amendment) is to amend Statutory Rules 1981 No. 325 by omitting the International Tin Council from the Schedule to those Statutory Rules.
Section 5 of the Act provides that regulations may declare an organization to be an organization to which that Act applies. Sub-paragraph 6(1)(a)(i) of the Act provides that regulations may confer upon an organization to which the Act
applies juridical personality and such legal capacity as is necessary for the exercise of the powers and the performance of the functions of the organization. Paragraph 6(1)(d) of the Act provides that regulations may confer upon any person who holds an office in an international organization to which the Act applies, all or any of the privileges and immunities specified in Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule of the Act.
The purpose of the International Tin Council (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations is to declare the International Tin Council to be an international organization to which the Act applies, to confer upon that Council such legal capacity as is necessary for the exercise of its powers and the performance of its functions, and to confer upon any person who is a resident of Australia tax exemption on that part of the salaries and emoluments received by such person from the Council for the performance outside Australia of the duties of his office.
Statutory Rules 1982