Commonwealth legislation

Preparatory Meeting to the Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Repeal)

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

55 of 1986

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This regulation repeals (cancels) earlier rules that granted special legal protections to people who attended a 1983 preparatory meeting for Antarctic Treaty discussions.

What it does:

Formally removes Statutory Rules 1983 No. 32 from Australian law
Those 1983 rules had given diplomatic-style privileges and immunities (legal protections like exemption from certain taxes and immunity from being sued or prosecuted) to delegates, staff, and officials attending the Preparatory Meeting to the Twelfth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting

Why it matters: The legal protections were temporary and tied to a specific diplomatic meeting held in 1983. Once that meeting ended, the special status was no longer needed. This 1986 regulation simply cleans up the statute books by formally removing the outdated rules.

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 551

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Preparatory Meeting to the Twelfth

Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations (Repeal)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963.

Dated 10 April 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

BILL HAYDEN

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

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Repeal

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 32 are repealed.

NOTE

Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 April 1986.

Source text

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