Criminal Code (State Sponsor of Terrorism—Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) Regulations 2025

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Criminal Code (State Sponsor of Terrorism—Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated  27 November 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Tony Burke

Minister for Home Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 State sponsor of terrorism—Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Criminal Code (State Sponsor of Terrorism—Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) Regulations 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 later of:(a) the day after this instrument is registered; and(b) the day Schedule 1 to the Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Act 2025 commences.However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur. 28 November 2025(paragraph (a) applies)

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Criminal Code Act 1995.

4  State sponsor of terrorism—Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

 (1) For the purposes of the definition of state sponsor of terrorism in subsection 110.3(1) of the Criminal Code, the entity known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is specified.

 (2) The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is also known by the following names:

 (a) IRG;

 (b) IRGC;

 (c) Islamic Revolutionary Corps;

 (d) Islamic Revolutionary Guard;

 (e) Pasdaran;

 (f) Pasdaran‑e Enghelab;

 (g) Pasdaran‑e Enghelab‑e Islami;

 (h) Pasdaran‑e Enghelab‑e Islami (Pasdaran);

 (i) Revolutionary Guards;

 (j) Sepah;

 (k) Sepah‑e Pasdaran‑e Enghelab‑e Islami;

 (l) Sepah Pasdaran;

 (m) the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution;

 (n) the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.