Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1) (Cth)

Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 612

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 Crimes (Overseas) Act 1964.

Dated 8 April 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN ELLISON

Minister for Justice and Customs

1Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3Amendment of Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2003

Schedule 1 amends the Crimes (Overseas) (Declared Foreign Countries) Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1]After regulation 5

insert

6Papua New Guinea

1. (1)

   For paragraph 3C (1) (b) of the Act, Papua New Guinea is a declared foreign country for the purposes of the Act in relation to designated persons.

2. (2)

   A person is a designated person if:

   1. (a)

      the person is deployed to Papua New Guinea as part of the package of enhanced cooperation that:

      1. (i)

         was agreed by the Government of Australia and the Government of Papua New Guinea at the 15th Australia–Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum held on 11 December 2003; and

      2. (ii)

         is referred to in the Joint Statement published on that date; and

   2. (b)

      the person’s name is notified by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the Papua New Guinea Department of Foreign Affairs and Immigration.

3. (3)

   For subsection 3C (3) of the Act:

   1. (a)

      Papua New Guinea is to start being a declared foreign country for the purposes of the Act on the date on which this paragraph commences; and

   2. (b)

      Papua New Guinea is to cease being a declared foreign country for the purposes of the Act on 30 June 2008.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 291.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette