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The Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011 (Cth Act No. 38 of 2011; assented 12 April 2011, commenced 6 December 2011 with the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011) is Australia's foundational parent statute enabling the entire autonomous sanctions regime — economic and travel measures imposed unilaterally by Australia independently of UN Security Council mandatory obligations. The Minister for Foreign Affairs may, by legislative instrument, impose targeted financial sanctions, travel bans, and vessel-dealing prohibitions on designated persons, entities, and vessels. As of 2026 the Act underpins Australia's autonomous sanctions programs against Russia, Iran, DPRK, Myanmar, Belarus, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Libya, Ukraine (occupied territories), and other regimes, and was materially extended in December 2021 to authorise Magnitsky-style thematic human-rights and corruption sanctions. Structurally peer-foundational to the UK Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA), Canada's Special Economic Measures Act 1992 (SEMA), Japan's FEFTA sanctions provisions, and the EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument — the ASA 2011 completes the G7+AU sanctions-parent-statute set in the IPTM register.

Canada's Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA, S.C. 1992, c. 17; assented 4 June 1992) is the foundational umbrella statute enabling the entire Canadian autonomous sanctions regime — economic measures imposed by Canada independently of UN Security Council mandatory obligations. The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, make regulations against a foreign state and its nationals or entities under four statutory triggers: (a) a grave breach of international peace and security causing or likely to cause a serious international crisis; (b) an international organisation or association of states to which Canada belongs has called for economic measures; (c) gross and systematic human-rights violations have been committed; or (d) acts of significant corruption by a foreign state's nationals or entities. As of the 2026-03-17 consolidation, 26 regulations are in force under SEMA targeting Russia, Ukraine (separatist entities), Iran, DPRK, Myanmar, Belarus, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Libya, Haiti, Nicaragua, Moldova, and others — making SEMA the parent authority for the broadest multilateral-allied autonomous-sanctions toolkit outside the United States. Structurally peer-foundational to the UK Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA), the CN Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law 2021, and Japan's FEFTA.