Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 Listing Declaration (No. 1) 2017

I, JULIE ISABEL BISHOP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make this declaration under subsection 15A(2) of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945.

Dated     26 October 2017

[signed]

JULIE BISHOP

Minister for Foreign Affairs

1  Name of Declaration

This Declaration is the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 Listing Declaration (No. 1) 2017.

2 Commencement

This Declaration commences upon signature.

3  Persons, entities and assets

For section 15A of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (the Act), I am satisfied on reasonable grounds that the person specified in Schedule 1 is a person mentioned in paragraph 1(c) of United Nations Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) and declare that his listing under section 15 of the Act continues to have effect.

Note 1:       Under section 20 of the Charter of the United Nations (Dealing with Assets) Regulations 2008, the Minister must be satisfied that the person or entity is a person or entity mentioned in paragraph 1(c) of Resolution 1373 (2001) of the Security Council of the United Nations.

Note 2:       Under section 40 of the Charter of the United Nations (Dealing with Assets) Regulations 2008, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade maintains a list of all persons, entities, assets and classes of assets currently listed under section 15 of the Act, and has published this list on the internet at www.dfat.gov.au/sanctions/consolidated-list.html.

Note 3:       Additional information about the listing of persons and entities under section 15 of the Act is set out in Schedule 2.

Schedule 1

The listing of the following person continues to be necessary to give effect to the decision of the United Nations Security Council in paragraph 1(c) of resolution 1373 (2001):

Primary Name:                Khaled Sharrouf

Aliases:                            Abu Zarqawi, Abu Zarqawi al austr, Abu Zarqawi Australi, Soldierofkilafah

Date of Birth:                  23 February 1981

Place of Birth:                 Auburn, New South Wales, Australia

Citizenship:                     Lebanese

Address:                          Syria/Iraq

Original listing date:       First listed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on 13 November 2014. 

Additional information:  N/A

Schedule 2

Request for statement of reasons

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade can provide a listed person or entity with an unclassified statement of reasons for his, her or its listing on request.  Requests may be submitted in writing to:

Director

Sanctions Section

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

John McEwen Crescent

Barton ACT 0221 Australia

or by email to asset.freezing@dfat.gov.au.

Application for revocation of a listing

A listed person or entity may apply to the Minister for Foreign Affairs to have his, her or its listing revoked.  The application must be in writing and set out the circumstances relied upon to justify the application.  Applications may be submitted to:

The Minister for Foreign Affairs

c/o Director

Sanctions Section

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

John McEwen Crescent

Barton ACT 0221 Australia

or by email to asset.freezing@dfat.gov.au.

Application for sanctions permit to use or deal with frozen assets

The owner or holder of a frozen asset may apply for authorisation to use or deal with the asset in a specified way. The application must be in writing and specify whether the application relates to a basic expense dealing, a contractual dealing or an extraordinary expense dealing as those terms are defined in section 30 of the Charter of the United Nations (Dealing with Assets) Regulations 2008. Applications may be submitted through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Online Sanctions Administration System at https://sanctions.dfat.gov.au.