Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 11) (Cth)

Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 11)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2012 No. 195

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation under the Criminal Code Act 1995.

Dated 16 August 2012

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

NICOLA ROXON

Attorney-General

1. Name of regulation

                  This regulation is the Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 11).

   2             Commencement

                  This regulation commences on the day after it is registered.

   3             Amendment of Criminal Code Regulations 2002

   Schedule 1 amends the Criminal Code Regulations 2002.

   
   

   Schedule 1          Amendment

   (section 3)

   [1]          Regulation 4W

   substitute

   4W         Terrorist organisations—Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

           (1)   For paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in subsection 102.1 (1) of the Code, the organisation known as Kurdistan Workers Party is specified.

           (2)   For subregulation (1), Kurdistan Workers Party is also known by the following names:

                  (a)    Freedom and Democratic Congress of Kurdistan;

                 (b)    Hezan Parastina Gel (HPG);

                  (c)    KADEK;

                 (d)    KG;

                  (e)    KHK;

                  (f)    Kongra Gel;

                 (g)    Kongra Gele Kurdistan;

                 (h)    Kurdish Freedom Falcons;

                  (i)    Kurdish Liberation Hawks;

                  (j)    Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress;

                 (k)    Kurdistan Freedom Brigade;

                  (l)    Kurdistan Freedom Hawks;

                (m)    Kurdistan Halk Kongresi;

                 (n)    Kurdistan Labor Party;

                 (o)    Kurdistan Ozgurluk Sahinleri;

                 (p)    Kurdistan People’s Congress;

                 (q)    New PKK;

                  (r)    Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan;

                  (s)    People’s Congress of Kurdistan;

                  (t)    People’s Defence Force;

                 (u)    PKK;

                 (v)    TAK;

                (w)    Teyrbazên Azadiya Kurdistan.

   
   

   Note

   1.      All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See