S.I. No. 554/2017 - International Renewable Energy Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Order 2017

1. Subject to the provisions of the following paragraphs of this section, each Member party to this Agreement undertakes to apply this Agreement until such time as a revised Agreement shall have become applicable and the said Member party shall have accepted the revised Agreement.

2. Each Member party to this Agreement, however, which has ceased to be a Member may address a written notification to the Director-General to the effect that it intends to withhold from the Agency the benefits of this Agreement as from a specified date, which shall not be earlier than three months from the date of receipt of the notification.

3. The Director-General shall inform all Members of any notification transmitted to him under the provisions of this section.

Section 40

At the request of one third of the Members party to this Agreement, the Director-General of the Agency shall convene a conference with a view to its revision.

Section 41

This Agreement is established by the Assembly in the Arabic, English, French and Spanish languages, as well as in the language of the State of the Depositary of the Statute, all being authentic. Official texts of other versions in any one of the official languages of the United Nations other than Arabic, English, French and Spanish, shall be authenticated on the request of one or more of the Members.

Given under the Official Seal of the Government,

5 December 2017.

LEO VARADKAR,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

The effect of this order is to accord various privileges and immunities to the International Renewable Energy Agency pursuant to the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Acts 1967-2006 and in accordance with the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities for the International Renewable Energy Agency.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

12

th December

, 2017.

WHEREAS it is enacted by

section 4

2A (amended by

section 4

of the

Diplomatic Relations and Immunities (Amendment) Act 2006

(No. 10 of 2006)) of the

Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Act 1967

(No. 8 of 1967) that the Government may by order make provision to enable —

(

a

) international organisations, communities or bodies, their institutions or organs and their property, and

(

b

) persons,

to have and enjoy in the State any inviolability, exemptions, facilities, immunities, privileges or rights (other than inviolability, exemptions, facilities, immunities, privileges or rights not conferred upon, or afforded in relation to, sending states or missions under the Vienna Convention) provided for in relation to them by an international agreement to which the State or the Government is or intends to become a party;

AND WHEREAS the International Renewable Energy Agency is such an international organisation, community or body and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities for the International Renewable Energy Agency, adopted by the Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency on 13 January 2013 is such an agreement;

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 42A, hereby order as follows