Offences made under the Parliament under section 55(3) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018
25 statutory instruments made under this Act create 223 criminal offences between them.
These are offences created by secondary legislation made under the Act — not the offences in the Act itself. An Act that creates a power to make regulations, and regulations that then create offences, is the ordinary route by which most of the criminal law is made, and it is the route this report follows.
Instruments made under it
- The Iran (Sanctions) Regulations 2023 2023 · 28 offences
- The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 2021 · 21 offences
- The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (revoked) 2021 · 21 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 2026 · 17 offences
- The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2024 2024 · 14 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 14) Regulations 2022 2022 · 12 offences
- The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025 2025 · 11 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 10) Regulations 2022 (revoked) 2022 · 10 offences
- The Burundi (Sanctions) Regulations 2021 (expired—not approved) 2021 · 7 offences
- The Misappropriation (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (revoked) 2020 · 7 offences
- The Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 2020 · 7 offences
- The Cyber (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 2020 · 7 offences
- The Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 2020 · 7 offences
- The Nicaragua (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 2020 · 7 offences
- The Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (revoked) 2019 · 7 offences
- The Guinea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019 · 7 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 2025 · 6 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 2023 · 6 offences
- The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 2020 · 5 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2023 2023 · 4 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2023 2023 · 4 offences
- The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 2023 · 3 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 2024 · 2 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 16) Regulations 2022 2022 · 2 offences
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2023 2023 · 1 offence