1Autonomous Sanctions (Suspension of Sanctions – Syria) Instrument 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Autonomous Sanctions (Suspension of Sanctions – Syria) Instrument 2025

I, PENNY WONG, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated 11 November 2025  

Penny Wong

Minister for Foreign Affairs

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Suspension of sanctions for sanctioned commercial activities

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Autonomous Sanctions (Suspension of Sanctions – Syria) Instrument 2025.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 regulation 5D of the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Regulations, including the following:

(a) sanctioned commercial activity;

(b) sanctioned service.

  In this instrument:

Regulations means the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011.

5  Suspension of sanctions for sanctioned commercial activities

  For paragraph 5D(d) of the Regulations, each activity mentioned in regulation 5A of the Regulations is not a sanctioned commercial activity.