Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) ACT 1963 - SECT 9B

             (1)  The regulations may confer upon:

                     (a)  a specified international tribunal; and

                     (b)  the members and officials of a specified international tribunal; and

                     (c)  experts and other persons engaged on missions by order of a specified international tribunal; and

                     (d)  the agents, advocates and counsel of parties in cases before a specified international tribunal; and

                     (e)  witnesses in cases before a specified international tribunal;

such privileges and immunities as are required to give effect to:

                      (f)  if the instrument by which the international tribunal is established relates to the privileges and immunities at the international tribunal--that instrument; or

                     (g)  if an agreement to which Australia and one or more other countries are parties relates to the privileges and immunities of the international tribunal--that agreement.

             (2)  This section and section 6 do not limit each other.

             (3)  In this section:

"international tribunal" means an international tribunal (however described) that:

                     (a)  has a judicial or quasi‑judicial character; and

                     (b)  is established by or under an agreement to which Australia and one or more other countries are parties;

but does not include the International Court of Justice established by the Charter of the United Nations.