Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons—Russia and Ukraine) Amendment (No. 22) Instrument 2022 (Cth)

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons—Russia and Ukraine) Amendment (No. 22) Instrument 2022

I, Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated   8 December 2022

Penny Wong

Minister for Foreign Affairs

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Russia and Ukraine) List 2014  2

1  Name

This instrument is the Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons—Russia and Ukraine) Amendment (No. 22) Instrument 2022.

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	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 paragraphs 6(a) and (b) of the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Russia and Ukraine) List 2014

1  In the appropriate position in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (table)

Add:

851	Name of individual	Mohammad Hossein BAGHERI
Date of birth	June 1960
Citizenship	Iranian
Instrument of first designation and declaration	Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons—Russia and Ukraine) Amendment (No. 22) Instrument 2022
Additional information	Major-General, Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces
852	Name of individual	Saeed AGHAJANI
Also known as	Saeed Ara JANI; Said Ara JANI; Said Agha JANI; Hamid AGHAJANI
Date of birth	3 April 1969
Citizenship	Iranian
Instrument of first designation and declaration	Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons—Russia and Ukraine) Amendment (No. 22) Instrument 2022
Additional information	Brigadier-General, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Aerospace Force (IRGC ASF) UAV Command
853	Name of individual	Amir Ali HAJIZADEH
Date of birth	28 February 1962
Citizenship	Iranian
Instrument of first designation and declaration	Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons—Russia and Ukraine) Amendment (No. 22) Instrument 2022
Additional information	Brigadier-General, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Aerospace Force

2  In the appropriate position in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (table)

Add:

63	Name of entity	Shahed Aviation Industries
Also known as	Shahed Aviation Industries Research Centre; Shahed Aviation Industries Complex
Address	Shahid Lavi Street, Sajad Street, Isfahan, Iran
Instrument of first designation and declaration	Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons—Russia and Ukraine) Amendment (No. 22) Instrument 2022
Additional information	Responsible for the design and development of the Shahed series of Iranian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which were supplied to Russia and used by Russia in its war against Ukraine.