EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Subject: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS BUREAU (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
SPECIALIZED AGENCIES (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1986 No. 240
UNITED NATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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 amended confer certain privileges and immunities on international organizations. The purpose of the proposed regulations is to amend the regulations in minor respects, as follows:
• International Exhibitions Bureau (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Amendment)
The proposed regulation will confer on representatives of governments attending EXPO 88 in Brisbane the immunities in paragraph 2 of Part I of the Third Schedule to the Act, namely, immunity from suit and from other legal process in respect of acts and things done in the capacity of a representative.
• Specialized Agencies (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Amendment)
The proposed regulation will add the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to those specialized agencies whose experts on missions enjoy certain privileges and immunities in the course of their duties in Australia, and will correct the designation in the Schedule of the Secretary-General of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• United Nations (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Amendment)
The proposed regulation will correct a reference to the waiver of immunity provisions in regulation 12, by substituting “regulation 9” for “regulation 8”.