Commonwealth legislation

Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions - Sierra Leone) Repeal Regulations 2010

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

325 of 2010

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

1/10 complexity

What this does

These regulations remove Australia's old laws that enforced United Nations sanctions against Sierra Leone.

Why it matters

Sanctions (trade restrictions, asset freezes, and travel bans) are meant to be temporary. When the UN Security Council lifts sanctions against a country, Australia must update its domestic laws to match. This regulation formally scraps the 2008 rules that required Australian businesses, banks, and border officials to enforce restrictions against certain people and entities linked to Sierra Leone's civil conflict.

Who it affects

Australian financial institutions, businesses trading with West Africa, and government agencies no longer need to check or enforce these specific Sierra Leone sanctions. For everyone else, this simply cleans up old laws that are no longer needed.

JSON API

Deep dive

Want the full deep dive?

Zoe can write the in-depth analysis on top of the summary above: how it works, who it affects and what each part actually does.

Current sections

Direct links to the current provisions in Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions - Sierra Leone) Repeal Regulations 2010.

Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions - Sierra Leone) Repeal Regulations 2010

View image in the official source

Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions — Sierra Leone) Repeal Regulations 20101

Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 325

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

Dated 8 December 2010

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

ROBERT McCLELLAND

Attorney-General for the Minister for Foreign Affairs

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions — Sierra Leone) Repeal Regulations 2010.

2 Commencement

These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 29 September 2010.

3 Repeal

The Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions — Sierra Leone) Regulations 2008 are repealed.

Note

Note: 1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

1 Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions - Sierra Leone) Repeal Regulations 2010