Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Boko Haram) Regulations 2023
I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 19 June 2023
David Hurley
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Mark Dreyfus KC
Contents
1 Name. 1
2 Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1
3 Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1
4 Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1
5 Terrorist organisation—Boko Haram....................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Repeals 3
Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Boko Haram) Regulations 2020 3
1 Name
This instrument is the Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Boko Haram) Regulations 2023.
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 | 1 July 2023. | 1 July 2023 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
5 Terrorist organisation—Boko Haram
(1) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in subsection 102.1(1) of the Criminal Code, the organisation known as Boko Haram is specified.
(2) Boko Haram is also known by the following names:
(a) Group of the Followers of the Prophet for Propagation and Holy Struggle;
(b) Jama’at Ahl al‑Sunnah lil‑Da’awa wal‑Jihad;
(c) Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal‑Jihad;
(d) Nigerian Mujahideen;
(e) Nigerian Taliban;
(f) People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad;
(g) Western Education is Forbidden;
(h) Yusuffiya Movement;
(i) Yusuffiya Sect.