STATUTORY RULES

1967 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES ACT 1967.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1967.

Dated this thirty-first day of May, 1967.

EDRIC BASTYAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD) Paul Hasluck

Minister of State for External Affairs.

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DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES REGULATIONS

Citation.

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

Definition.

2. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1967.

Declaration of Hong Kong as a place to which section 13 of the Act applies.

3. The Colony of Hong Kong is declared to be a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which section 13 of the Act applies.

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

4.—(1.) For the purposes of section 13 of the Act, each of the following offices in the service of the Government of the Colony 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.

(2.) A person who—

(a) holds an office specified in the last preceding sub-regulation; and

(b) is not entitled to any privileges or immunities under section 7, 9, 10 or 11 of the Act,

is entitled to the immunity from suit and legal process, and to the inviolability of official premises and of official archives, to which he would be entitled if he were a consular officer of a foreign sovereign power.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 8th June, 1967.

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Declaration of Fiji as a place to which section 13 or the Act applies.

5. The Colony of Fiji is declared to be a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which section 13 of the Act applies.

Consular immunity of Fiji Government Representative.

6.—(1.) For the purposes of section 13 of the Act, the office of Fiji Government Representative in Australia is a prescribed office.

(2.) A person who—

(a) holds the office of Fiji Government Representative in Australia; and

(b) is not entitled to any privileges or immunities under section 7, 9, 10 or 11 of the Act,

is entitled to the immunity from suit and legal process, and to the inviolability of official premises and of 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