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Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2019

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 21 February 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

Contents

Part 1—Introduction

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

Part 2—Declared foreign countries

6 Declared foreign countries

Part 3—Transitional provisions

7 Transitional—Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2003

Schedule 1—Repeals

Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2003

Part 1—Introduction

1 Name

This instrument is the Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2019.

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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2019.	1 July 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Crimes (Overseas) Act 1964.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

In this instrument:

Act means the Crimes (Overseas) Act 1964.

Part 2—Declared foreign countries

6 Declared foreign countries

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 3C(1)(a) of the Act, each of the following foreign countries is a declared foreign country for the purposes of the Act:

(a) Afghanistan;

(b) Iraq;

(d) Papua New Guinea;

(e) Solomon Islands.

(2) For the purposes of subsection 3C(3) of the Act, each foreign country mentioned in subsection (1):

(a) is to start being a declared foreign country for the purposes of the Act on 1 July 2019; and

(b) is to cease being a declared foreign country for the purposes of the Act on 30 June 2024.

Part 3—Transitional provisions

7 Transitional—Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2003

Despite the repeal of the Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2003 by Schedule 1 to this instrument, those regulations, as in force immediately before 1 July 2019, continue to apply in respect of an act of a person in a foreign country that occurred before that day.