Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 1090

Criminal Law

The Chemical Weapons (Asset-Freezing) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018

Made

16th October 2018

Laid before Parliament

17th October 2018

Coming into force

7th November 2018

The Treasury are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to restrictive measures against persons or bodies listed by an international organisation.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of that Act and it appears to the Treasury that it is expedient for any reference to Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1542 of 15th October 2018 concerning restrictive measures against the proliferation and use of chemical weapons to be construed as a reference to that Annex as amended from time to time.

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972, make the following Regulations.

PART 1 General

Citation, commencement and application

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Chemical Weapons (Asset-Freezing) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018 and come into force on 7th November 2018.

(2) An offence under these Regulations may be committed by conduct wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom by––

(a) a UK national, or

(b) a body incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.

(3) In paragraph (2)––

“ conduct ” includes acts and omissions;

“ UK national ” means––

(a)

a British citizen,

(b)

a British overseas territories citizen who acquired their citizenship from a connection with Gibraltar, or

(c)

a British subject under Part 4 of the British Nationality Act 1981 (British subjects) with the right of abode in the United Kingdom.

Interpretation

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 2 Funds and economic resources

Freezing of funds and economic resources

3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Making funds available to a designated person

4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Making funds available for the benefit of a designated person

5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Making economic resources available to a designated person

6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Making economic resources available for the benefit of a designated person

7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Credits to a frozen account

8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Licences

9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 3 Offences

Contravention and circumvention of prohibitions

10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Officers of a body corporate etc

11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Penalties

12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Proceedings

13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 4 Miscellaneous

Information provisions

15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notices

16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Crown

17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 5 Amendments

Amendment to subordinate legislation

18. In the European Union Financial Sanctions (Amendment of Information Provisions) Regulations 2017 , omit regulation 17(4).

Amendment to the Ukraine (European Union Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2014

19. In paragraph 1(3)(b) of the Schedule (information provisions) to the Ukraine (European Union Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2014, after “institution” insert “ or relevant business or profession ” .

Rebecca Harris

Mike Freer

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

Regulation 15

SCHEDULE

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footnote	commentary	insert/omit
F1	Reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/618) , regs. 1(2) , 39(2) ; S.I. 2019/627 , reg. 14(2) 2020 c. 1 , Sch. 5 para. 1(1)	omitted
F2	Pts. 2-4 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/618) , regs. 1(2) , 39(3) ; S.I. 2019/627 , reg. 14(2) 2020 c. 1 , Sch. 5 para. 1(1)	omitted
F3	Sch. omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/618) , regs. 1(2) , 39(3) ; S.I. 2019/627 , reg. 14(2) 2020 c. 1 , Sch. 5 para. 1(1)	omitted
M1	S.I. 2010/1834 .
M2	1972 c.68 . Section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) , section 27(1)(a) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) , section 3(3) and Schedule, Part 1. Paragraph 1(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the 1972 Act is modified by section 144 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c.3) , in relation to the exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the 1972 Act, for the purposes of implementing, or otherwise in relation to, EU obligations created or arising by or under an EU financial sanctions Regulation, as defined by section 143 of the 2017 Act. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the 1972 Act was inserted by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, section 28 and amended by S.I. 2007/1388 and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008, Schedule, Part 1.
M3	OJ L 259, 16.10.2018, p.12.
M4	1981 c.61 . Part 4 was amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c.8) , section 1(1)(b) and the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c.41) , sections 15 and 161, Schedule 2, paragraph 1(i) and Schedule 9.
M5	S.I. 2017/754 .
M6	S.I. 2014/507 ; amended by S.I. 2017/560 and S.I. 2017/754 .