Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 5 - THE SECURITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH  

Part 5.3B - Prohibited hate groups  

Division 114A - Preliminary  

SECTION 114A.1   Objects  

(1)    
The objects of this Part are to:

(a)    protect the Australian community or part of the Australian community against social, economic, psychological and physical harm (including harm mentioned in subsection (2) ), and from the promotion of violence, by prohibiting organisations that engage in, prepare or plan to engage in, or assist the engagement in, or advocate engaging in, conduct constituting a hate crime; and

(b)    to give effect to Australia ' s obligations under the following:

(i) Articles 20 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, done at New York on 16 December 1966, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time;

(ii) Articles 4(a) and (b) of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, done at New York on 21 December 1965, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.

Note:

The Covenant and Convention could in 2026 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (https://www.austlii.edu.au).

(2)    
For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) , social, economic, psychological and physical harm includes social, economic, psychological and physical harm caused by the continued presence in Australia of organisations that have engaged in, prepared or planned to engage in, or assisted the engagement in, or advocated engaging in, conduct constituting a hate crime.