Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 Listing Declaration (No. 1) 2018

I, JULIE BISHOP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make the following declaration

Dated     8 February 2018

[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) 2018.

2 Commencement

This Declaration commences upon signature.

3 Authority

This Declaration is made under section 15A of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945.        

4 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 entity specified in Schedule 1 is an entity mentioned in paragraph 1(c) of United Nations Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) and declare that its listing under section 15 of the Act continues to have effect.

Note 1:       Under regulation 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 regulation 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 entity 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:                Islamic State Sinai Province

Aliases:                            ABM; Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis; Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis; Ansar Bayt al-Maqdes; Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis; Ansar Beit al-Maqdis; Ansar Jerusalem; Champions of Jerusalem; ISIL Sinai Province; ISIL-Sinai; Islamic State - Sinai Province; Islamic State in the Sinai; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-Sinai; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-Sinai Province; IS-Sinai; Jamaat Ansar al-Dawa al-Islamiyya fi Bayt Al Maqdis; Jamaat Ansar Beit al-Maqdis; Jamaat Ansar Beit al-Maqdis; Jamaat Ansar Beit al-Maqdis fi Sinaa; Jihadi Jerusalem; Supporters of Jerusalem; Supporters of the Holy House; Supporters of the Holy Place; The Group of Partisans of the Islamic State of Bayt Al Maqdis; the Sinai Province; The State of Sinai; Warriors of Jerusalem; Wilayat Sinai.  

Address:                          Egypt

Original listing date:       First listed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on 24 February 2015.

Additional Information:   Islamic State Sinai Province is an ISIL-affiliated extremist     group, which adheres to ISIL’s global jihadist ideology. 

Note: formerly listed with ‘Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis’ as the ‘Primary Name’ and ‘Islamic State – Sinai Province’ as an alias.

Schedule 2

Request for statement of reasons

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will 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.