International counter-terrorism measures
The international community's legal response to help prevent terrorist acts and bring to justice those who commit them
Australia has ratified and implemented in our national law 14 of the 18 international counter-terrorism instruments.
These instruments form part of the international community's legal response to help prevent terrorist acts and bring to justice those who commit them.
- Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (Tokyo, 1963)
- Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (The Hague, 1970)
- Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Sabotage) (Montreal, 1971)
- Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation (Montreal, 1988)
- Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (Vienna, 1980)
- International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (New York, 1979)
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (New York, 1973)
- International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (New York, 1997)
- International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (New York, 1999)
- International Convention for the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purposes of Detection (Montreal, 1991)
- Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (Rome, 1988)
- Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (Rome, 1988)
- International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (New York 2005)
- 2005 Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
Australia has signed and is working towards the ratification of the remaining four instruments.
- Protocol of 2005 to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
- Protocol of 2005 to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms located on the Continental Shelf
- The Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation
- The Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft
Implementing international instruments in Australian law
Apart from the two international instruments yet to be ratified, Australia has implemented our international obligations in the following national law:
- Crimes (Aviation) Act 1991
- Crimes (Ships and Fixed Platforms) Act 1992
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Act 1987
- Crimes (Hostages) Act 1989
- Crimes (Internationally Protected Persons) Act 1976
- Criminal Code Amendment (Suppression of Terrorist Bombings) Act 2002