European Space Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 2000

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 94

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 7 June 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

alexander downer

Minister for Foreign Affairs

European Space Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 2000

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 941

made under the

International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963

Contents

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 1 Name of Regulations 

 2 Commencement 

 3 Definitions 

 4 Legal capacity and personality 

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1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the European Space Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 2000.

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3 Definitions

  In these Regulations:

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

European Space Agency means the agency established under Article I of the Convention for the Establishment of a European Space Agency done at Paris on 30 May 1975.

4 Legal capacity and personality

  For subsection 12A (2) of the Act, the European Space Agency:

 (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.

1. Made by the Governor-General on 7 June 2000, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 8 June 2000.