STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 33.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES ACT 1952-1958.*

WHEREAS by section 7 of the Diplomatic Immunities Act 1952-1958 it is enacted that the regulations may provide that a person who holds a prescribed office in the service of the Government of a place (not being a country to which this Act applies) declared by the regulations to be a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which this section applies is entitled to the immunity from suit and legal process, and to the inviolability of official premises and official archives, to which he would be entitled if he were a consular officer of a foreign sovereign power:

And whereas it is desirable—

(a) to declare that Malta, which is not a country to which that Act applies, is a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which section 7 of that Act applies; and

(b) to provide that the persons who hold certain offices in the service of the Government of Malta are entitled to the immunity and the inviolability referred to in that section:

Now therefore I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Diplomatic Immunities Act 1952-1958.

Dated this 15th day of May, 1959.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

signed R. G. Casey

Minister of State for External Affairs.

 

Diplomatic Immunities Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Diplomatic Immunities Regulations.

Interpretation.

2. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Diplomatic Immunities Act 1952-1958.

Declaration of Malta as a place for the purposes of section 7 of the Act.

3. Malta is declared to be a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which section 7 of the Act applies.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th May, 1959.

2557/59.―Price 3d. 9/6.4.1959.

Consular immunity of certain persons.

4.—(1.) For the purposes of section 7 of the Act, each of the following offices in the service of the Government of Malta is a prescribed office:—

(a) the office of Commissioner for Malta in Australia;

(b) the office of Secretary to the office of the Commissioner for Malta in Australia; and

(c) an office of Emigration Attaché to the office of the Commissioner for Malta in Australia.

(2.) A person who holds an office specified in the last preceding sub-regulation is entitled to the immunity from suit and legal process, and to the inviolability of official premises and official archives, to which he would be entitled if he were a consular officer of a foreign sovereign power.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.