This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct errors in SI 2010/2978 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
United Nations
Made
14th December 2011
Laid before Parliament
21st December 2011
Coming into force
18th January 2012
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of December 2011
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Under article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council of the United Nations has by resolutions adopted on 23rd December 2006, 24th March 2007, 3rd March 2008 and 9th June 2010 called upon Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and all other States to apply certain measures to give effect to decisions of that Council in relation to Iran.
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1 of the United Nations Act 1946(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is ordered, as follows—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Iran (United Nations Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 18th January 2012.
(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Iran (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2009(2).
2. The principal Order is amended as follows.
(1) Replace the provisions that start after the end of article 4A and end before the start of article 6 by the following—
5.—(1) Any person, who, for the purpose of obtaining any licence under this Order, makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his or her knowledge is false in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular, shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.
(2) Any person who has done any act under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State under this Order and who fails to comply with any conditions attaching to that licence shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.
Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under this paragraph where the person proves that the condition with which he or she failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his or her consent, by the Secretary of State after the doing of the act authorised by the licence.
5A.—(1) Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State under this article, the provision of ship supply services to any ship registered in Iran is prohibited, in the circumstances set out in paragraph (2).
(2) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are where there is information which provides reasonable grounds to believe that the ship is carrying items, the supply, delivery, sale, transfer, export or procurement of which is prohibited by articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 of Council Regulation (EC) No 961/2010(3), the Export Control Order 2008 or by articles 4 or 4A of this Order.
(3) Any person knowingly concerned in the provision or attempted provision of such services in such circumstances shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.”
(2) In article 12(2) of the principal Order delete the words “article 5(2),”.
Ceri King
Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, made under the United Nations Act 1946, amends the Iran (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/886) (“the principal Order”) as amended by the Iran (United Nations Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2978) (“the amendment Order”) to give further effect to United Nations sanctions against Iran under resolutions 1737(2006), 1747(2007), 1803(2008) and 1929(2010) of the Security Council.
The substantive provisions of this Order include the following amendments to the principal Order:
Article 2(1) replaces text after the end of article 4A and before the start of article 6 in the principal Order by inserting new articles 5 and 5A to correct the numbering of these articles as amended by the amendment Order.
Article 2(2) amends article 12(2) of the principal Order as amended to omit a reference to article 5(2).