Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 14)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 298

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Criminal Code Act 1995.

Dated 15 December 2005

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

PHILIP RUDDOCK

Attorney-General

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 14).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Amendment of Criminal Code Regulations 2002

  Schedule 1 amends the Criminal Code Regulations 2002.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 4, heading

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[2] After regulation 4V

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4W Terrorist organisations — Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

 (1) For paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in subsection 102.1 (1) of the Code, the organisation known as Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is specified.

 (2) For subregulation (1), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is also known by the following names:

 (a) Peoples Congress of Kurdistan;

 (b) Kongra Gel;

 (c) Kongra Gele Kurdistan;

 (d) Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan;

 (e) New PKK;

 (f) Freedom and Democratic Congress of Kurdistan;

 (g) Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress;

 (h) KADEK;

 (i) Kurdistan Halk Kongresi;

 (j) KHK;

 (k) Kurdistan Labor Party;

 (l) Kurdistan Peoples Congress;

 (m) Kurdish Freedom Falcons;

 (n) Kurdish Liberation Hawks;

 (o) Kurdistan Ozgurluk Sahinleri;

 (p) Teyrbazên Azadiya Kurdistan;

 (q) TAK.

[3] Schedule 1A, heading

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1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au.