Commonwealth legislation

Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions - Haiti) Regulations (Repeal)

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

449 of 1994

Collection

legislative instrument

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This regulation removes Australia's economic sanctions against Haiti.

Australia had previously imposed sanctions (trade and financial restrictions) on Haiti through the United Nations to pressure the military regime that had overthrown the elected government. This repeal regulation scraps those sanctions, effectively ending Australia's participation in the UN sanctions regime against Haiti.

The regulation is straightforward: it simply cancels the earlier rules that created the sanctions. Once repealed, Australian individuals and businesses are no longer restricted from trading with or sending money to Haiti under these particular UN sanctions laws.

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Statutory Rules 1994 No. 4491

Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions—Haiti) Regulations (Repeal)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulation under the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945.

Dated 20 December 1994.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARETH EVANS

Minister for Foreign Affairs

Repeal of Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions—Haiti) Regulations

1. Statutory Rules 1994 No. 158 are repealed.

[NOTE: This Regulation commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 December 1994.

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