Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2004C00275:body:0:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2004C00275
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 0–2918

International Organization for Migration (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 1991

Statutory Rules 1991 No. 457 as amended

made under the

International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963

This compilation was prepared on 10 August 2000
taking into account amendments up to SR 2000 No. 201

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Contents

Page

 1 Name of Regulations [see Note 1]
 2 Definitions
 3 Act applies to the Organisation
 4 Organisation to have juridical personality and legal capacity
 5 Privileges and immunities of Organisation
 6 Privileges and immunities of the officers and former officers of the Organisation
 6A Indirect tax concession scheme — acquisitions
 6B Indirect tax concession scheme — conditions
 6C Indirect tax concession scheme — claims for payment
 6D Indirect tax concession scheme — manner of payment
 7 Waiver of privileges and immunities
 7A Delegation
 8 Repeal

Notes

1 Name of Regulations [see Note 1]

  These Regulations are the International Organization for Migration (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations 1991.

2 Definitions

  In these Regulations:
Act means the International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.
member of the family, in relation to a person (the first person), means a person who is:
 (a) a part of the first person's household; and
 (b) any of the following members of the first person's family:
 (i) the first person's spouse;
 (ii) an unmarried child who is under the age of 21 years;
 (iii) an unmarried child who is under the age of 25 years and is undertaking full-time studies at an Australian educational institution;
 (iv) an unmarried child who is incapable of self‑support because of a physical or mental disability.
Organisation means the organisation that:
 (a) was established at Venice on 19 October 1953 under the name of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration; and
 (b) in 1980, changed its name to the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration; and
 (c) in 1989, further changed its name to the International Organization for Migration.
taxable supply has the meaning given by section 195-1 of the GST Act.
tax invoice has the meaning given by section 29-70 of the GST Act.

3 Act applies to the Organisation

  The Organisation is declared to be an international organisation to which the Act applies.

4 Organisation to have juridical personality and legal capacity

  The Organisation:
 (a) is a body corporate; and
 (b) may sue and, subject to regulation 5, be sued in its corporate name; and
 (c) has the capacity, in its corporate name:
 (i) to contract; and
 (ii) to acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property.

5 Privileges and immunities of Organisation

 (1) Subject to subregulation (2), the Organisation has the privileges and immunities specified paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 12