Commonwealth legislation

Consular Privileges and Immunities (Commonwealth Countries) Regulations (Repeal)

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

265 of 1985

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This regulation is a legislative delete button. It cancels the 1973 Consular Privileges and Immunities (Commonwealth Countries) Regulations in their entirety.

What this means:

The 1973 rules had granted special legal protections (privileges and immunities) to consular officials from Commonwealth countries—things like tax exemptions and immunity from certain lawsuits.
This 1985 instrument wipes those rules off the books.
Why? Likely because Australia updated its consular arrangements, possibly extending the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to Commonwealth countries instead of having separate bilateral-style rules.

The entire law is one sentence: "Statutory Rules 1973 No. 278 are repealed."

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of AustraliaStatutory Rules 1985 No. 2651

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Consular Privileges and Immunities

(Commonwealth Countries) Regulations

(Repeal)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under .the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972. .

Dated 11 October 1985.

J. A. ROWLAND Administrator

By His Excellency's Command,

GARETH EVANS

Minister of State for Resources

and Energy for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

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Repeal

Statutory Rules 1973 No. 278 are repealed.