STATUTORY RULES

1967 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963-1966.*

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.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of December, 1967.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of Minister of State for External Affairs

Minister of State for External Affairs.

 

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Asian Development Bank (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“the Act” means the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963-1966;

“the Bank” means the Asian Development Bank;

“the Agreement” means the Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank a copy of which is set out in the Schedule to the Asian Development Bank Act 1966.

International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act to apply to Bank.

3. The Bank is declared to be an international organization to which the Act applies.

Bank to have juridical personality and legal capacities.

4.—(1.) The Bank—

(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession;

(b) has the capacity to contract; and

(c) is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property and of instituting legal proceedings.

(2.) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially in Australia shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Bank affixed to a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed.

Privileges and immunities of Bank.

5. The Bank has such of the privileges and immunities specified in the First Schedule to the Act as are required by the Agreement to be conferred on the Bank.

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1967.

 

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

17395/67—Price 5c 10/13.12.1967