Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) The office of Secretary-General is a high office in the Institute for the purposes of subparagraph 6 (1) (b) (i) of the Act.
(2) Subject to subregulations (4) and (5), a person who holds, or is performing the duties of, the office of Secretary-General has the privileges and immunities specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Act.
(3) Subject to subregulation (5), a person who has ceased to hold, or perform the duties of, the office of Secretary-General has the immunities specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Act.
(4) The privileges and immunities conferred on a person under subregulation (2) do not apply to a child of the person if the child:
(a) has attained the age of 18 years; or
(b) ceases to be a dependant of the person.
(5) Subject to subregulation (6), the privileges and immunities conferred on a person by subregulation (2), or the immunities conferred on a person by subregulation (3), do not extend to a person who is an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia.
(6) Subregulation (5) does not affect immunity from a suit or other legal process in relation to actions of a person undertaken in performing the duties of the office of Secretary-General.