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Removal of Recognition of US Military Commissions (David Hicks) Bill 2006

  • - C2006B00219
A Bill for an Act to remove recognition of the US Military Commissions, intended to try Australian citizen David Hicks, from the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
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Registered 21 Dec 2006
Introduced Senate 07 Dec 2006

2004‑2005‑2006

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

THE SENATE

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Removal of Recognition of US Military Commissions (David Hicks) Bill 2006

 

No.      , 2006

 

(Senators Nettle and Bob Brown)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to remove recognition of the US Military Commissions, intended to try Australian citizen David Hicks, from the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

      

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary                                                                                                               1

1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to remove recognition of US Military Commissions                                                                                                3

 

A Bill for an Act to remove recognition of the US Military Commissions, intended to try Australian citizen David Hicks, from the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Part 1—Preliminary

  

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Removal of Recognition of US Military Commissions (David Hicks) Act 2006.

2  Commencement

                   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

 

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to remove recognition of US Military Commissions

1  Subsection 337A(3)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

             (3)  In this section:

offence against a law of a foreign country does not include an offence triable by a military commission of the United States of America established by The United States Military Commissions Act 2006 or established under a Military Order of 13 November 2001 made by the President of the United States of America and entitled “Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non‑Citizens in the War Against Terrorism”.