Statutory Instruments
2012 No. 56
Criminal Law
The Libya (Asset-Freezing) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Made
at 11.00 a.m. on 11th January 2012
Laid before Parliament
at 3.30 p.m. on 11th January 2012
Coming into force
at 4.30 p.m. on 11th January 2012
The Treasury are designated( 1 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ) in relation to restrictive measures against persons or bodies listed by an international organisation.
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Libya (Asset-Freezing) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force at 4.30 p.m. on 11th January 2012.
Amendment of the Libya (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011
2. In regulation 3(1A)(a) of the Libya (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011 (freezing of funds and economic resources)( 3 ), omit paragraphs (i) and (ii).
Angela Watkinson
Michael Fabricant
Two of the Lords Commissioners of
Her Majesty’s Treasury
At 11.00 a.m. on 11th January 2012
1972 c.68 . Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) , Schedule, Part 1.
S.I. 2011/605 , amended by S.I. 2011/2390 .