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Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Amendment Act 1996

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Privileges and immunities of members of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Amendment Act 1996

Public Act		1996 No 73
Date of assent		26 July 1996

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Privileges and immunities of members of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1968

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Amendment Act 1996, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of August 1996.

2 Privileges and immunities of members of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 10b (as inserted by section 62 of the International War Crimes Tribunal Act 1995), the following section:

“10c

“(1)

In this section,—

“‘Convention’ means the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, done at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on the 10th day of December 1982:

“‘Tribunal’ means the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI of the Convention.

“(2)

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, confer on the members of the Tribunal such privileges and immunities as may be required by article 10 of Annex VI of the Convention.”

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Amendment Act 1996