Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hizballah) Regulations 2021

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 09 December 2021

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Karen Andrews

Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Terrorist organisation—Hizballah

Schedule 1—Repeals

Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hizballah’s External Security Organisation) Regulations 2021

1  Name

  This instrument is the Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hizballah) Regulations 2021.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Hizballah

 (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 Hizballah is specified.

 (2) Hizballah is also known by the following names:

 (a) Al‑Muqawamah al‑Islamiyyah;

 (b) Ansar al‑Allah;

 (c) Ansar Allah;

 (d) Ansarollah;

 (e) Followers of God;

 (f) Followers of the Prophet Muhammad;

 (g) God’s Helpers;

 (h) Hezballah;

 (i) Hezbollah;

 (j) Hezbullah;

 (k) Hisbollah;

 (l) Hizbollah;

 (m) Hizbullah;

 (n) Islamic Holy War;

 (o) Islamic Jihad;

 (p) Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine;

 (q) Islamic Jihad Organisation;

 (r) Islamic Resistance;

 (s) Organisation of Right against Wrong;

 (t) Organisation of the Oppressed;

 (u) Organisation of the Oppressed on Earth;

 (v) Partisans of God;

 (w) Party of Allah;

 (x) The Party of God.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Hizballah’s External Security Organisation) Regulations 2021

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.