International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963

The Schedules

First Schedule  

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Section 6


Privileges and Immunities of International Organisation

  • 1. Immunity of the organisation, and of the property and assets of, or in the custody of, or administered by, the organisation, from suit and from other legal process.
  • 2. Inviolability of property and assets of, or in the custody of, or administered by, the organisation and of premises of, or occupied by, the organisation.
  • 3. Exemption of property and assets of, or in the custody of, or administered by, the organisation from restrictions and controls.
  • 4. Inviolability of archives.
  • 5. Exemption from currency and exchange restrictions.
  • 6. Exemption from duties on the importation or exportation of -
  • (a) goods imported or exported by the organisation for its official use; and
  • (b) publications of the organisation imported or exported by it.
  • 7. Exemption of the organisation from the liability to pay or collect taxes other than duties on the importation or exportation of goods and of the income, property, assets and transactions of the organisation from such taxes.
  • 8. Exemption from taxes of obligations and securities issued or guaranteed by the organisation and of interest and dividends on such obligations and securities.
  • 9. Exemption from prohibitions and restrictions on the importation or exportation of -
  • (a) goods imported or exported by the organisation for its official use; and
  • (b) publications of the organisation imported or exported by it.
  • 10. The right to avail itself, for telegraphic communications sent by it and containing only matter intended for publication by the press or for broadcasting (including communications addressed to or despatched from places outside Australia), of any reduced rates applicable in relation to telegraphic communications by the press.
  • 11. Absence of censorship for official correspondence and other official communications.
  • 12. The right to use codes and to send and receive correspondence and other papers and documents by couriers or in sealed bags and to have any such couriers or bags treated as diplomatic couriers or diplomatic bags, as the case may be.
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