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CONSULAR PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES AMENDMENT BILL 2005

2004-2005
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Consular Privileges and Immunities
Amendment Bill 2005
No. , 2005
(Foreign Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Consular Privileges
and Immunities Act 1972, and for related purposes
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Contents
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Short title ......................................................................................1
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Commencement .............................................................................1
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Schedule(s)....................................................................................2
Schedule 1--Amendment of the Consular Privileges and
Immunities Act 1972
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Consular Privileges and Immunities Amendment Bill 2005 No. , 2005 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Consular Privileges
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and Immunities Act 1972, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Consular Privileges and Immunities
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Amendment Act 2005.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
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Assent.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendment of the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972 Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendment of the Consular
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Privileges and Immunities Act 1972
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1 After section 10
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Insert:
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10AA Additional privileges or immunities granted by agreement,
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arrangement or understanding
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(1) If:
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(a) Australia, in writing, enters into an agreement, arrangement or
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understanding (the reciprocal instrument) with an overseas
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country (the reciprocating country); and
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(b) either:
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(i) at the time Australia enters into the reciprocal
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instrument, a determination under subsection (2) that the
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reciprocating country is one to which this section applies
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is in force; or
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(ii) at any later time, a determination under subsection (2)
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that the reciprocating country is one to which this section
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applies comes into force; and
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(c) the reciprocal instrument grants:
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(i) privileges or immunities, or both, to consular officers of
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Australia in the reciprocating country; and
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(ii) the same, or equivalent, privileges or immunities, or
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both, to consular officers of the reciprocating country in
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Australia; and
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(d) the privileges or immunities, or both, mentioned in
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paragraph (c) supplement, extend or amplify those granted by
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the Convention;
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then, for so long as the reciprocal instrument continues to grant the
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privileges or immunities, or both, and the determination remains in
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force, the privileges or immunities, or both, are granted as
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mentioned in subparagraph (c)(ii).
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Schedule 1 Amendment of the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972
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(2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine an overseas
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country to be an overseas country to which this section applies. The
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Minister may, by legislative instrument, revoke the determination.
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