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CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS (SANCTIONS-FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA)REGULATIONS 1998 1998 NO. 102

Statutory Rules 1998 No. 102

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Foreign Affairs

Charter of the United Nations Act 1945

Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions-Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) Regulations

Section 6 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for, and in relation to, giving effect to decisions that:

(a)       the Security Council has made under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations; and

(b)       Article 25 of the Charter requires Australia to carry out;

in so far as those decisions require Australia to apply measures not involving the use of armed force.

The United Nations Security Council decided in Resolution 1160 (1998), in light of armed clashes between Serbian authorities and ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo, to impose sanctions to prevent the sale and supply of arms and related materiel of all types to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The purpose of these Regulations is to implement those parts of the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that could not be implemented through Regulations under the Customs Act 1901. The Regulations impose a prohibition on the supply of arms and related materiel to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and also limit the use of Australian aircraft and ships for the supply of arms and related materiel in breach of this prohibition.

The Regulations commence on gazettal.