EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES (ORGANIZATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ASIAN AND PACIFIC COUNCIL) REGULATIONS (REPEAL)
Statutory Rules 1986 No. 111 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, 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.
2. The regulations to be repealed were made in 1972 to confer certain privileges and immunities on four organizations associated with the Asian and Pacific Council. These were the Cultural and Social Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region, established in Seoul in 1968; the Economic Co-operation Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region, established in Bangkok in 1970; the Food and Fertilizer Technology Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region, established in Taiwan in 1969; and the Registry of Scientific and Technical Services, established in Canberra in 1970. Following the recognition of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China in 1972, the Australian Government withdrew its participation in the Asian and Pacific Council because of Taiwan’s membership.
The Registry of Scientific and Technical Services was also wound up at that time.
3. It is accordingly no longer necessary nor appropriate that regulations remain in force under the Act in respect of organizations associated with the Asian and Pacific Council. The regulations listed below will effect the repeal of the existing regulations.
Privileges and Immunities (Organizations associated with the Asian and Pacific Council) Regulations (Repeal)