STATUTORY RULES.
1959. No. 20.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1948.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1948.
Dated this sixteenth day of March, 1959.
W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for External Affairs.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.
United Nations to be a body corporate, &c.
2.—(1.) The United Nations—
(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession;
(b) has the capacity to contract; and
(c) is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property and of instituting legal proceedings.
(2.) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially in Australia shall take judicial notice of the seal of the United Nations affixed to a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed.
Privileges and immunities.
3.—(1.) The United Nations or a person in relation to whom the Convention applies has, in Australia, the privileges and immunities applicable under the Convention to the United Nations or that person, as the case may be.
(2.) Where any Act, other than the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1948, makes provision in relation to privileges and immunities of the United Nations or a person in relation to whom the Convention applies, the last preceding sub-regulation does not confer any privileges or immunities in relation to matters arising under that first-mentioned Act.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th March, 1959.
8849/58.—PRICE 3D. 9/4.3.1959.
Evidence.
4. A certificate under the hand of the Minister certifying that, on a specified date or during a specified period—
(a) a specified country was a Member of the United Nations;
(b) a specified body was a principal or subsidiary organ of the United Nations;
(c) a specified conference was a conference convened by the United Nations; or
(d) a specified person was—
(i) a representative of a Member of the United Nations to an organ of the United Nations or a conference convened by the United Nations;
(ii) included in a category of officials of the United Nations to which the provisions of Articles V and VII of the Convention applied; or
(iii) an expert (other than an official coming within the scope of Article V of the Convention) performing a mission for the United Nations,
is evidence of the matter so certified.
By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.