United Nations Sanctions (Iraq) Amendment Regulations 2008

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United Nations Sanctions (Iraq) Amendment Regulations 2008

Anand Satyanand, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 20th day of October 2008 

Present:
The Right Hon Helen Clark presiding in Council

Pursuant to section 2 of the United Nations Act 1946, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

Regulations

1 Title

  • These regulations are the United Nations Sanctions (Iraq) Amendment Regulations 2008.

2 Commencement

  • These regulations come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 Principal regulations amended
4 New regulation 6 substituted

  • Regulation 6 is revoked and the following regulation substituted:

    “6  Exportation of specified goods to Iraq prohibited

    • “(1) No person in New Zealand, and no New Zealand citizen in any place outside New Zealand, may directly or indirectly export specified goods to Iraq.

      “(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to particular specified goods or to specified goods of a particular class if the Minister has consented to the exportation of those goods.

      “(3) Subclause (1) does not apply to any arms or related material authorised in advance by the Government of Iraq or by a multilateral force under unified command to serve the purposes of Resolution 1546 and other related resolutions of the Security Council.”

Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force 28 days after the date of their notification in the Gazette, update the United Nations Sanctions (Iraq) Regulations 1991 to take account of recent resolutions of the Security Council.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 23 October 2008.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.