STATUTORY RULES.

1965. No. 50.

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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 that Act applies) declared by the regulations to be a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which that 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, by regulations made under that Act, Hong Kong has been declared to be a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which section 7 of that Act applies:

And whereas it is desirable to provide that persons who hold specified offices in the service of the Government of Hong Kong are entitled to the immunity and inviolability referred to in that section:

And whereas it is desirable—

(a) to declare that Fiji 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 person who holds an office in the service of the Government of Fiji is entitled to the immunity and 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 twenty-second day of April, 1965.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for External Affairs.

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Amendments of the Diplomatic Immunities Regulations.†

1. Regulation 6 of the Diplomatic Immunities Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are inserted in its stead:—

Consular immunity of certain officers or the Government of Hong Kong.

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

(a) the office of Hong Kong Government Trade Representative in Australia; and

(b) the office of Assistant Hong Kong Government Trade Representative in Australia.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 30 April, 1965

† Statutory Rules 1959, No. 33, as amended by Statutory Rules 1962 No. 29.

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“(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.

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

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

Consular immunity of certain officers of the Government of Fiji.

“8.—(1.) For the purposes of section 7 of the Act, the office of Fiji Government Representative in Australia is a prescribed office.

“(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.

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