EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
INTERNATIONAL SUGAR ORGANIZATION (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
STATUTORY RULES 1984 No. 463 ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The International Super Organization is an intergovernmental organization that was established by the International Sugar Agreement 1984 to further international cooperation in sugar matters and to provide a forum for the possible negotiation of new international sugar agreements.
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 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 Sugar Organization was declared to be an organization to which the Act applies in Statutory Rules 1978 No. 213.
The regulations enclosed herewith have been prepared to amend the definition of the International Sugar Organization contained in Statutory Rules 1973 No. 213. The advantage of this amendment is to avoid in future the necessity of drafting new regulations on each occasion that one international sugar agreement is superceded by another. This would also conform to the practice followed in relation to other international organizations of not defining the international organization in terms of its constituent instrument.
Statutory Rules 1984.