EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963
WORLD TOURISM ORGANISATION (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (REPEAL)
Statutory Rules 1989 No 340 issued by the authority of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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 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 World Tourism Organisation (the Organisation) was declared by regulation to be an international organisation for the purposes of the Act in 1984 to confer on the Organisation, its Secretary-General and representatives of members of the Organisation, certain privileges and immunities.
Australia lodged an instrument of withdrawal from the Organisation on 27 July 1989. The withdrawal will take effect from 26 July 1990.
The Regulations repeal the original regulations as of that date.
Details of the Regulations are as follow:
Regulation 1 provides for the regulations to come into effect on 26 July 1990.
Regulation 2 repeals the World Tourism Organisation (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.