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Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Kurdistan Workers’ Party) Regulations 2021

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 23 July 2021

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Karen Andrews

Minister for Home Affairs

1 Name

This instrument is the Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation—Kurdistan Workers’ Party) Regulations 2021.

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	4 August 2021.	4 August 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Kurdistan Workers’ Party

(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 Kurdistan Workers’ Party is specified.

(2) Kurdistan Workers’ Party is also known by the following names:

(a) Freedom and Democratic Congress of Kurdistan;

(b) Hezan Parastina Gel;

(d) KADEK;

(e) Kongra Azadi u Demokrasiya Kurdistan;

(f) Kongra Gel;

(g) Kongra Gele Kurdistan;

(h) Kurdish Freedom Falcons;

(i) Kurdish Liberation Hawks;

(j) Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress;

(k) Kurdistan Freedom Brigade;

(l) Kurdistan Freedom Hawks;

(m) Kurdistan Halk Kongresi;

(n) Kurdistan Labor Party;

(o) Kurdistan Ozgurluk Sahinleri;

(p) Kurdistan People’s Congress;

(q) New PKK;

(r) Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan;

(s) People’s Congress of Kurdistan;

(t) People’s Defence Force;

(u) PKK;

(v) TAK;

(w) Teyrbazên Azadiya Kurdistan.