Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 Listing 2016 (No. 1)
I, JULIE ISABEL BISHOP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, issue this listing under subsection 15 (1) of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945.
Dated 24 November 2016
JULIE BISHOP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
1 Name of Listing
This Listing is the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 Listing 2016 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
This Listing commences on gazettal.
3 Persons, entities and assets
For subsection 15(1) of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (the Act), the listing under section 15 of the Act of the person and entities in Schedule 1 is necessary to give effect to paragraph 1 (c) of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373.
Note 1: Under section 20 of the Charter of the United Nations (Dealing with Assets) Regulations 2008, the Minister must be satisfied that the person or entity is mentioned in paragraph 1 (c) of Resolution 1373 (2001) of the Security Council of the United Nations.
Note 2: Under section 40 of the Charter of the United Nations (Dealing with Assets) Regulations 2008, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade maintains a list of all persons, entities, assets and classes of assets currently listed under section 15 of the Act, and has published this list on the internet at www.dfat.gov.au/sanctions/consolidated-list.html.
Note 3: Additional information about the listing of persons and entities under section 15 of the Act is set out in Schedule 2.
Schedule 1
The listing of the following person is necessary to give effect to the decision of the United Nations Security Council in paragraph 1(c) of resolution 1373 (2001):
Primary Name: Asim Umar
Aliases: Sanaul Haq, Asim Umer, Maulana Asim Umar
Date of birth: 1974, 1975 or 1976
Place of birth: Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, India
Address: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Citizenship: India
Additional information: Umar was a Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan military commander and Al-Qaida propagandist prior to being named the leader of Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in September 2014.
The listing of the following entities is necessary to give effect to the decision of the United Nations Security Council in paragraph 1(c) of resolution 1373 (2001):
Primary Name: Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent
Aliases: AQIS, al-Qa‘ida in the Indian Subcontinent, Jamā‘at Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Shibh al-Qārrah al-Hindīyah, Organisation of the Base of Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent, Qaedat Al-Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent
Original script: جماعة قاعدة الجهاد في شبه القارة الهندية
Address: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan
Additional information: AQIS is an Al-Qaida-affiliated extremist group, established in September 2014 with the purpose of advancing Al-Qaida’s ideology in South Asia.
Primary Name: ISIL-Libya
Aliases: Islamic State in Libya; IS–Libya; Islamic State–Libya; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant–Libya; Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham–Libya; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Libya; ISIS-Libya; Wilayat Barqa; Wilayat Barqah; Wilayat Fezzan; Wilayat Tripolitania; Wilayat Tarablus; Wilayat al-Tarabulus; Da’esh-Libya
Address: Libya
Additional information: ISIL-Libya is an ISIL-affiliated extremist group, which adheres to ISIL’s global jihadist ideology.
Schedule 2
Request for statement of reasons
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will provide a listed person or entity with an unclassified statement of reasons for his, her or its listing. Requests may be submitted in writing to:
Director
Sanctions Section
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
John McEwen Crescent
Barton ACT 0221 Australia
or by email to asset.freezing@dfat.gov.au.
Application for revocation of a listing
A listed person or entity may apply to the Minister for Foreign Affairs to have his, her or its listing revoked. The application must be in writing and set out the circumstances relied upon to justify the application. Applications may be submitted to:
The Minister for Foreign Affairs
C/o Director
Sanctions Section
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
John McEwen Crescent
Barton ACT 0221 Australia
or by email to asset.freezing@dfat.gov.au.
Application for sanctions permit to use or deal with frozen assets
The owner or holder of a frozen asset may apply for authorisation to use or deal with the asset in a specified way. The application must be in writing and specify whether the application relates to a basic expense dealing, a contractual dealing or an extraordinary expense dealing as those terms are defined in section 30 of the Charter of the United Nations (Dealing with Assets) Regulations 2008. Applications may be submitted through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Online Sanctions Administration System at https://sanctions.dfat.gov.au.