Commonwealth legislation

South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations

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Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

476 of 1984

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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These Regulations declare the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency to be an "international organization" under the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963, so the Act’s immunities apply to the Agency’s officers. Officers receive the privileges listed in the Act’s Fourth Schedule, but a limited tax rule says salary/emoluments for services performed in Australia are not tax-exempt for Australian residents unless the person is a non‑citizen who came to Australia solely to do that job. This affects Agency staff, tax administrators, and employers.

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South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 4761

South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency

(Privileges and Immunities) Regulations

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

Dated 21 December 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) Bill Hayden

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations.

Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“the Act” means the International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963;

“the Agency” means the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency.

Act to apply to Agency

The Agency is declared to be an international organization to which the Act applies.

S.R. 250/84 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 20c 12/30.8.1984

Privileges and immunities of officers of Agency

(1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), a person who holds an office in the Agency has the privileges and immunities specified in paragraph 2 of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.

(2) The salary and emoluments received from the Agency by a person who holds an office in the Agency, being a resident of Australia within the meaning of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, are not, to the extent to which they are for services rendered in Australia, exempt from taxation unless the person is not an Australian citizen and came to Australia solely for the purpose of performing the duties of the office in the Agency held by him.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 January 1985.

Printed by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer

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