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AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA ZONE OF COOPERATION (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 444

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 444

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963

AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA ZONE OF COOPERATION (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

Issued by the authority of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Section 13 of the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities Act 1963 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which are required, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

The Australia-Indonesia Zone of Cooperation (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations accord to the Joint Authority the privileges and immunities available to it under the Treaty between Australia and the Republic of Indonesia on the Zone of Cooperation in an area between the Indonesian Province of East Timor and Northern Australia (Timor Gap Treaty).

Sub-regulation 4(c) confers on the Joint Authority the capacity, in its corporate name, to acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property, and to institute legal proceedings. However, Article 7(2) of the Timor Gap Treaty provides that the Joint Authority shall have the capacity to acquire and dispose of movable and immovable property and to institute and be party to legal proceedings.


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