European Space Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 2000
Statutory Rules 2000 No. 94
I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.
Dated 7 June 2000
WILLIAM DEANE
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
alexander downer
Minister for Foreign Affairs

European Space Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 2000
Statutory Rules 2000 No. 941
made under the
International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963

Contents
	Page
	1	Name of Regulations	2
	2	Commencement	2
	3	Definitions	2
	4	Legal capacity and personality	2

1	Name of Regulations
		These Regulations are the European Space Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 2000.
2	Commencement
		These Regulations commence on gazettal. 
3	Definitions
		In these Regulations:
Act means the International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.
European Space Agency means the agency established under Article I of the Convention for the Establishment of a European Space Agency done at Paris on 30 May 1975.
4	Legal capacity and personality
		For subsection 12A (2) of the Act, the European Space Agency:
	(a)	is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and
	(b)	is capable, in its corporate name:
	(i)	of entering into contracts; and
	(ii)	of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property; and
	(iii)	of suing and being sued.
Note
1.	Made by the Governor-General on 7 June 2000, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 8 June 2000.