Statutory Rules 1998    No. 1361

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Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 1998

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 18 June 1998.

 WILLIAM DEANE
 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TIM FISCHER

Minister for Trade

for the

Minister for Foreign Affairs

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Name of Regulations

 1. These Regulations are the Joint Accreditation System
of Australia and New Zealand (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 1998.

Commencement

 2. These Regulations take effect from the day specified in a written determination made by the Minister under subsection 13 (2) of the Act for the purposes of the commencement of these Regulations.

Definitions

 3. In these Regulations:

Act means the International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.

JAS-ANZ means the Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand.

Act to apply to JAS-ANZ

 4. The JAS-ANZ is declared to be an international organisation to which the Act applies.

JAS-ANZ has legal personality and capacity

 5. The JAS-ANZ:

 (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.

Repeal

 6. Statutory Rules 1996 No. 35 are repealed.

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NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 25 June 1998.