The Central African Republic (European Union Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2014 (revoked)

UK Statutory Instrument 2014 No. 587 — creates 6 criminal offences.

6offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 12 March 2014
In force from: 14 March 2014
Extent: Not stated
Subject: International sanctions, export control and trade restrictions
Made under: European Communities Act 1972, Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations make provision relating to the enforcement of Council Regulation (EU) No. No. 224/2014 of 10 March 2014 (OJ L 70, 11.3.2014, p.1) concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in the Central African Republic (“the Council Regulation”). The measures include the freezing of funds and economic resources of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are not made available to them or for their benefit. Regulation 2 defines designated persons as any person named in Annex I to the Council Regulation (as amended from time to time). Annex I includes those persons listed by the United Nations Sanctions Committee. Regulations 3 to 7 provide prohibitions against dealing with the funds or economic resources of a designated person, or making funds or economic resources available, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of a designated person. Regulation 8 provides an exception to the prohibitions in regulations 4 and 5 where a frozen account is credited for a permitted reason. Regulation 9 provides a licensing procedure to enable funds and economic resources to be exempted from the prohibitions. Regulation 10 makes it an offence to breach any of the prohibitions in regulations 3 to 7, or to seek to circumvent those provisions. Regulations 11 to 14 contain provision about penalties, proceedings and who, in relation to bodies corporate and other bodies, may be prosecuted for an offence under the Regulations. The Schedule makes provision for information gathering and information disclosure. A list of designated persons is available on the internet at: (www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-consolidated-list-of-targets) or can be obtained from Financial Sanctions, HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ. Further information is available from Financial Sanctions, HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ and on the HM Treasury website (www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-treasury).

Offences created by this instrument

Reporting obligations of relevant institutions paragraph 1(5) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
Failure to comply with request for information paragraph 4(1) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Contravention and circumvention of prohibitions regulation 10(1) · Status not determined · Mixed — some elements strict, some not
Contravention and circumvention of prohibitions regulation 10(2) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Licences regulation 9(5) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Licences regulation 9(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability

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