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legal proceedings.

 (2) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially in Australia or in a Territory of the Commonwealth not forming part of the Commonwealth shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Agency affixed to a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed.

5 Privileges and immunities of Agency

 (1) Subject to subregulations (2), (3) and (4), the Agency has the privileges and immunities specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in the First Schedule to the Act.

 (2) The Agency, is not, by virtue of the last preceding subregulation, exempt from such national, regional or municipal dues and taxes in respect of the premises of the Agency, whether owned or leased, as represent payment for specific services rendered.

 (3) Where goods (not being publications of the Agency) are imported, manufactured or purchased by the Agency for sale by it, subregulation (1) of this regulation does not operate to prevent sales tax being payable by the Agency or by any other person upon the sale value of the goods.

 (4) The Agency's privileges in relation to indirect tax are limited to:
 (a) the exemption conferred by section 11B of the Act; and
 (b) concessions under section 11C of the Act in relation to acquisitions mentioned in subregulation 9A (1).

6 Privileges and immunities of high officers of the Agency

 (1) The offices of:
 (a) Director-General of the Agency;
 (b) Deputy Director-General of the Agency; and
 (c) Inspector-General of the Department of Safeguards and Inspection of the Agency,
  are each a high office in the Agency for the purposes of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 6 of the Act.

 (2) A person who holds an office specified in the last preceding subregulation, or is performing the duties of such an office, has the privileges and immunities specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Act.

 (3) A person who has ceased to hold an office specified in subregulation (1) of this regulation, or to perform the duties of such an office, has the immunities specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Act.

7 Privileges and immunities of representatives to Agency

 (1) A person who is accredited to, or is in attendance at an international conference convened by, the Agency as a representative of a country other than Australia has, while exercising his functions as such a representative, the privileges and immunities specified in Part I of the Third Schedule to the Act.

 (2) A person who has ceased to be accredited to, or has attended an international conference convened by, the Agency as a representative of a country other