5AApplication of Act in relation to certain international organizations

#### 5A Application of Act in relation to certain international organizations (1) In this section, international organization means: (a) an organization the members of which are overseas countries in a particular geographical region; (b) an organization that is constituted by persons representing overseas countries in a particular geographical region; or (c) an organization established, or a group of organizations constituted, by: (i) organizations the members of which are overseas countries in a particular geographical region; or (ii) organizations that are constituted by persons representing overseas countries in a particular geographical region; being an organization or a group of organizations that is declared by the regulations to be an international organization for the purposes of this section. (2) This Act applies in relation to an international organization as if: (a) each reference in a provision of this Act other than section 12 to an overseas country, and each reference in the Convention to a sending State, included a reference to the international organization; (b) each reference in the Convention to the Government of a sending State included a reference to the international organization or, if an organ of the international organization is, for the time being, specified by the regulations in relation to the international organization for the purposes of this paragraph, that organ; (c) any mission or other agency of the international organization that exercises functions substantially corresponding to functions exercised by a diplomatic mission were a diplomatic mission; and (d) in subsection 12(1): (i) “a mission of Australia to an international organization (as defined by subsection 5A(1)), being a mission that exercises functions substantially corresponding to functions exercised by a diplomatic mission” were substituted for “a mission of Australia in an overseas country”; and (ii) “the mission in Australia of that international organization” were substituted for “the mission of that country”.