Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hamas’ Izz al‑Din al‑Qassam Brigades) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 02 August 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Peter Dutton

Minister for Home Affairs
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Terrorist organisation—Hamas’ Izz al‑Din al‑Qassam Brigades

Schedule 1—Repeals

Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hamas’ Izz al‑Din al‑Qassam Brigades) Regulation 2015

1  Name

  This instrument is the Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades) Regulations 2018.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Criminal Code Act 1995.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Terrorist organisation—Hamas’ Izz al‑Din al‑Qassam Brigades

 (1) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in subsection 102.1(1) of the Criminal Code, the organisation known as Hamas’ Izz al‑Din al‑Qassam Brigades is specified.

 (2) Hamas’ Izz al‑Din al‑Qassam Brigades is also known by the following names:

 (a) Ezzedeen Al‑Qassam Brigades;

 (b) Izz al‑Din Al‑Qassem Brigades.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hamas’ Izz al‑Din al‑Qassam Brigades) Regulation 2015

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.