EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
PREPARATORY MEETING TO THE TWELFTH ANTARCTIC TREATY CONSULTATIVE MEETING (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (REPEAL)
TWELFTH ANTARCTIC TREATY CONSULTATIVE MEETING
(PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (REPEAL) 1986 No. 56
SOUTH EAST ASIA TREATY ORGANIZATION (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (REPEAL)
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 purpose of these regulations is to repeal existing regulations which were drawn up to provide for the extension of privileges and immunities to foreign delegates to the consultative meetings between States parties to the Antarctic Treaty, namely the Preparatory Meeting to the Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations [SR 1983, No. 32] and the Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations [SR 1983, No. 151], and to repeal existing regulations drawn up to provide for privileges and immunities for the South East Asia Treaty Organization in Australia, namely the South East Asia Treaty Organization (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations [SR 1967, No. 50].
3. The Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting was held on 13 September 1983 and the functions of the South East Asia Treaty Organization were terminated on 30 June 1977. It is considered that it is no longer necessary nor appropriate that these regulations remain in force.