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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism) Regulations 20061

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 7
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987.
Dated 15 February 2006

  P. M. JEFFERY
  Governor-General
  By His Excellency's Command

  CHRISTOPHER MARTIN ELLISON
  Minister for Justice and Customs

Contents

 1 Name of Regulations
 2 Commencement
 3 Definitions
 4 Application of the Act

Schedule 1 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism) Regulations 2006.

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Definitions

  In these Regulations:
Act means the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987.
Convention means the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, done at New York on 9 December 1999, a copy of the English text of which is set out in Schedule 1.

4 Application of the Act

  The Act applies to a foreign country that is a Party to the Convention, subject to the Convention.

Note   States become Parties to the Convention by depositing instruments of ratification, acceptance and approval with the Secretary‑General of the United Nations (see Article 25 of the Convention). A current list of Parties to the Convention may be accessed through the United Nations Internet home page at http://www.un.org.
Schedule 1 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism
(regulation 3)

Preamble

THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION,

BEARING IN MIND the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations concerning the maintenance of international peace and security and the promotion of good-neighbourliness and friendly relations and cooperation among States,

DEEPLY CONCERNED about the worldwide escalation of acts of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations,

RECALLING the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations, contained in General Assembly resolution 50/6 of 24 October 1995,

RECALLING ALSO all the relevant General Assembly resolutions on the matter, including resolution 49/60 of 9 December 1994 and its annex on the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, in which the States Members of the United Nations solemnly reaffirmed their unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, wherever and by whomever committed, including those which jeopardize the friendly relations among States and peoples and threaten the territorial integrity and security of States,

NOTING that the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism also encouraged States to review urgently the scope of the existing international legal