Autonomous Sanctions Amendment (Afghanistan) Regulations 2025
I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 4 December 2025
Sam Mostyn AC
Governor-General
By Her Excellency’s Command
Penny Wong
Minister for Foreign Affairs
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011
This instrument is the Autonomous Sanctions Amendment (Afghanistan) Regulations 2025.
(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 | The day after this instrument is registered. | 5 December 2025 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 Subregulation 4(2) (before table item 1)
Insert:
1A | Afghanistan | Arms or related matériel. |
2 Subregulation 5(4) (before table item 1)
Insert:
1A | Afghanistan | (a) A military activity. (b) The manufacture, maintenance or use of an export sanctioned good for Afghanistan. |
3 Regulation 6 (before table item 1)
Insert:
1A | Afghanistan | A person or entity that the Minister is satisfied is engaging in, is responsible for or is complicit in, or has engaged in, been responsible for or been complicit in, any of the following: (a) the oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan; (b) the oppression of minority groups in Afghanistan; (c) the general oppression of people in Afghanistan; (d) undermining good governance or the rule of law in Afghanistan. |