10Privileges and immunities of Executive Secretary

10 Privileges and immunities of Executive Secretary

(1) The office of Executive Secretary is a high office in the Commission for the purposes of subparagraph 6(1)(b)(i) of the Act. (2) Subject to subregulations (4) and (5), a person who holds, or is performing the duties of, the office of Executive Secretary has the privileges and immunities specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Act. (3) Subject to subregulation (5), a person who has ceased to hold, or perform the duties of, the office of Executive Secretary has the immunities specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Act. (4) The privileges and immunities conferred on a person under subregulation (2) do not apply to a child of the person if the child: (a) has attained the age of 18 years; or (b) ceases to be a dependant of the person. (5) Subject to subregulation (6), the privileges and immunities conferred on a person by subregulation (2), or the immunities conferred on a person by subregulation (3), do not extend to a person who is an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia. (6) Subregulation (5) does not affect immunity from a suit or other legal process in relation to actions of a person undertaken in performing the duties of the office of Executive Secretary.