EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
INTERNATIONAL SUGAR ORGANIZATION
(PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
STATUTORY RULES 1982 153 ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Paragraph 6(1)(d) of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963 provides that regulations may confer upon a 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 that Act.
The International Sugar Organization was declared to be an organization to which that Act applies in Statutory Rules 1978 No. 213.
The purpose of these Statutory Rules is to grant tax exemption to any person who is a resident of Australia on that part of the salaries and emoluments received by such person from the International Sugar Organization for the performance outside Australia of the duties of his office.