Foreign Affairs and Trade Legislation Amendment Act 1997 (150 of 1997)

Schedule 1   Amendments of Acts relating to matters dealt with by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963

11   After section 12

Insert:

12A Conferral of juridical personality and legal capacities

(1) This section applies to an organisation if:

(a) either:

(i) the organisation is established by an instrument to which 2 or more countries are parties; or

(ii) an instrument to which Australia and one or more other countries are parties recognises the organisation as having international legal personality; and

(b) it appears to the Minister that the provisions of this Act other than this section do not, or may not, apply in relation to the organisation, but that it is desirable that juridical personality and one or more legal capacities should be conferred on the organisation.

(2) The regulations may confer upon a specified organisation juridical personality and such legal capacities as are necessary for the exercise of the powers, and the performance of the functions, of the organisation.