Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 41 of 1980 - SECT 3

3. After section 5 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Application of Act in relation to certain international organizations

"5A. (1) In this section, 'international organization' means-

   (a)  an organization the members of which are overseas countries in a
        particular geographical region;

   (b)  an organization that is constituted by persons representing overseas
        countries in a particular geographical region; or

   (c)  an organization established, or a group of organizations constituted,
        by-

        (i)    organizations the members of which are overseas countries in a
               particular geographical region; or

        (ii)   organizations that are constituted by persons representing
               overseas countries in a particular geographical region, being
               an organization or a group of organizations that is declared by
               the regulations to be an international organization for the
               purposes of this section .



"(2) This Act applies in relation to an international organization as if-

   (a)  each reference in a provision of this Act other than section 12 to an
        overseas country, and each reference in the Convention to a sending
        State, included a reference to the international organization;

   (b)  each reference in the Convention to the Government of a sending State
        included a reference to the international organization or, if an organ
        of the international organization is, for the time being, specified by
        the regulations in relation to the international organization for the
        purposes of this paragraph, that organ;

   (c)  any mission or other agency of the international organization that
        exercises functions substantially corresponding to functions exercised
        by a diplomatic mission were a diplomatic mission; and

   (d)  in sub-section 12 (1)-

        (i)    'a mission of Australia to an international organization (as
               defined by sub-section 5A (1)), being a mission that exercises
               functions substantially corresponding to functions exercised by
               a diplomatic mission' were substituted for 'a mission of
               Australia in an overseas country'; and

        (ii)   'the mission in Australia of that international organization'
               were substituted for 'the mission of that country'.".