INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT

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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE FAR EAST (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS

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Statutory Rules 1968, No. 54(b)

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.

Declaration of Twenty-fourth Session of ECAFE.

2. The international conference that is to be held at Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory commencing on the seventeenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight, being the conference known as the Twenty-fourth Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, is declared to be a conference to which section 7 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963-1966 applies.

(b) Made under the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963-1966 on 17 April 1968; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17 April 1968.

The form of introductory words used to make the Statutory Rule was as follows:

“Whereas it is provided by section 7 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963-1966 that where an international conference is, or is to be, held in Australia or in a Territory of the Commonwealth and it appears to the Governor-General that the provisions of that Act other than that section do not, or may not apply in relation to that conference but it is desirable that diplomatic privileges and immunities should be applicable in relation to that conference, the regulations may declare the conference to be a conference to which that section applies:

“And whereas it appears to me that the provisions of that Act, other than section 7 of that Act may not apply in relation to the international conference referred to in the following Regulations but it is desirable that diplomatic privileges and immunities should be applicable in relation to that conference :

“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 International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963—1966.”