2.—(1) In this Order, the following expressions have, except where otherwise expressly provided, the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
“aircraft” means a fixed wing, swivel wing, rotary wing, tilt rotor or tilt wing airborne vehicle or helicopter;
“assistance” means any form of assistance including training, technical assistance, financing and financial assistance, investment, brokering or other services, and the transfer of financial resources and services;
“commander”, in relation to an aircraft, means the member of the flight crew designated as commander of the aircraft by the operator thereof, or, failing such a person, the person who is for the time being the pilot in command of the aircraft;
“Council Regulations” mean, Council Regulation (EU) No. 765/2006 adopted by the Council of the European Union on 18th May 2006(1), Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 271/2011 adopted by the Council of the European Union on 21st March 2011(2) and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 505/2011 adopted by the Council of the European Union on 23rd May 2011(3), as amended from time to time;
“document” includes information recorded in any form, and in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, references to its production include references to producing a copy of the information in legible form;
“economic resources” means assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are not funds but may be used to obtain funds, goods or services;
“equipment which might be used for internal repression” means the equipment listed in Annex III of the Regulation;
“export” includes shipment as stores;
“exportation” in relation to any ship or aircraft, includes the taking out of the Territory of the ship or aircraft notwithstanding that it is conveying goods or passengers and whether or not it is moving under its own power; and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
“financing and financial assistance” in relation to the provision of assistance related to restricted goods includes financing or financial assistance for any sale, supply, transfer or export of restricted goods;
“funds” means financial assets and benefits of every kind, including (but not limited to)—
cash, cheques, claims on money, drafts, money orders and other payment instruments;
deposits with relevant institutions or other entities, balances on accounts, debts and debt obligations;
publicly and privately traded securities and debt instruments, including stocks and shares, certificates representing securities, bonds, notes, warrants, debentures and derivatives contracts;
interest, dividends or other income on or value accruing from or generated by assets;
credit, rights of set-off, guarantees, performance bonds or other financial commitments;
letters of credit, bills of lading, bills of sale; and
documents providing evidence of an interest in funds or financial resources;
“frozen account” means an account with a relevant institution which is held or controlled by a listed person;
“Gazette” means the official gazette of the Territory or any other form in which official information is normally made available in the Territory;
“Governor” means the Governor or other officer administering the Government of the Territory;
“listed person” means any person listed in Annexes I and IA to the Regulation (as modified from time to time) or a person identified in a direction by the Governor under article 19(1);
“master”, in relation to a ship, includes any persons (other than a pilot) for the time being in charge of the ship;
“officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who has purported to act in any such capacity;
“operator”, in relation to an aircraft or vehicle, means the person for the time being having the management of the aircraft or vehicle;
“owner”, in relation to a ship, where the owner is not the operator, means the operator and any person to whom it is chartered;
“person” means any natural or legal person, entity or body;
“the Regulation” means Council Regulation (EU) No 765/2006(4) adopted by the Council of the European Union on 18 May 2006 which came into force on 20 May 2006 (the date of its publication) concerning certain restrictive measures, as amended from time to time;
“relevant institution” means—
the person responsible for the regulation and supervision of financial services business in the Territory;
any person who may lawfully accept deposits in or from within the Territory by way of business; or
any society established lawfully in the Territory whose principal purpose is the making of loans secured on residential property where such loans are funded substantially by its members;
“restricted goods” means the goods, software and technology specified in Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008(5) and, in so far as they are not covered in that Schedule, the goods, software and technology specified in the Common Military List of the European Union(6) and, in so far as they are not covered in either Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008 or the Common Military List of the European Union the equipment listed in Annex III of the Regulation;
“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation;
“shipment” includes loading into an aircraft;
“stores” means goods for use in a ship or aircraft and includes fuel and spare parts and other articles of equipment, whether or not for immediate fitting, but excludes any goods for use in a ship or aircraft as merchandise for sale by retail to persons carried therein;
“Supreme Court” means the court of the Territory having unlimited jurisdiction in civil proceedings;
“vehicle” means land transport vehicle.
(2) For the purpose of the definition of “relevant institution” in paragraph (1)—
(a)the activity of accepting deposits has the meaning given in any relevant order made under section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(7); and
(b)a person is not regarded as accepting deposits by way of business if—
(i)the person does not hold themselves out as accepting deposits on a day to day basis, and
(ii)any deposits which they accept are accepted only on particular occasions, whether or not involving the issue of any securities.
(3) In determining for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b)(ii) whether deposits are accepted only on particular occasions, regard is to be had to the frequency of those occasions and to any characteristics distinguishing them from each other.
(4) Except where this Order provides otherwise, expressions used in the Regulation which are also used in this Order have the same meaning in this Order as they have in the Regulation.
O.J. L.134,20.5.2006,p.1.
O.J. L.76 22.3.2011, p.13.
O.J. L.136 24.5.2011, p.48.
O.J. L.134,20.5.2006,p.1.
O.J. C. 86 18.3.2011, p.1.