Bill
International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Amendment Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-09-20. Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-06-21
- second reading — 2023-06-21
- second reading — 2023-09-04
- second reading — 2023-09-04
- committee — 2023-09-04
- third reading — 2023-09-04
- introduced — 2023-09-05
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- third reading — 2023-09-11
- passed — 2023-09-11
- royal assent — 2023-09-20
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-06-21.
The bill would let Australia grant diplomatic protections to international organisations it does not belong to.
It would allow regulations to give these protections to types of staff not currently listed in the law, when the organisation asks and Australia agrees.
The bill also makes a minor change to immigration exemption rules in the schedules to match treaty requirements.
- Expands the definition of international organisations to include those Australia does not join.
- Permits privileges and immunities to be granted to additional categories of officials not named in the Act.
- Allows more flexible application of privileges and immunities from Schedules 2 to 5.
- Amends immigration restriction provisions in the Third and Fourth Schedules.
International organisations not members of Australia, their officials and connected persons, and the Australian government.
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