Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing (Prescribed Foreign Countries) Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 25 February 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Michael Keenan

Minister for Justice

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

6 Prescribed foreign countries

Schedule 1—Repeals

Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing (Iran Countermeasures) Regulation 2014

1  Name

  This is the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (Prescribed Foreign Countries) Regulation 2016.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Act 2006.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

  In this instrument:

Act means the Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Act 2006.

6  Prescribed foreign countries

  Each of the following countries is declared to be a prescribed foreign country for the purposes of the Act:

 (a) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;

 (b) Iran.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing (Iran Countermeasures) Regulation 2014

1  The whole of the regulation

Repeal the regulation.