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CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS (SANCTIONS-HAITI) REGULATIONS (REPEAL) 1994 NO. 449

CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS (SANCTIONS-HAITI) REGULATIONS (REPEAL) 1994 NO. 449

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Statutory Rules 1994 No. 449

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Foreign Affairs

Charter of the United Nations Act 1945

Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions-Haiti) Regulations (Repeal)

Section 6 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (the Act) 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 on 6 May 1994, by virtue of Resolution 917, to impose sanctions on Haiti in addition to the sanctions imposed by Resolutions 841 and 873. These sanctions were implemented under Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions-Haiti) Statutory Rules 1994 No. 158.

On 29 September 1994, the United Nations Security Council decided, by virtue of Resolution 944, to terminate the measures regarding Haiti set out in Resolutions 841 (1993), 873 (1993) and 917 (1994), at 00.01 a.m. EST on the day after the return to Haiti of President Aristide (Operative Paragraph 4). President Aristide returned to Haiti on 15 October 1994, with the result that, in accordance with the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 944, the sanctions against Haiti ended automatically at 00.01 a.m. on 16 October 1994.

Details of the proposed Regulation are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides for the repeal of Statutory Rules 1994 No. 158.

The Regulation commenced on gazettal.

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