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Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 893

Criminal Law

The Côte d’Ivoire (Asset-Freezing) (Revocation) Regulations 2016

Made

8th September 2016

Laid before Parliament

9th September 2016

Coming into force

30th September 2016

The Treasury are designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to restrictive measures against persons or bodies listed by an international organisation.

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, make the following Regulations.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Côte d’Ivoire (Asset-Freezing) (Revocation) Regulations 2016 and shall come into force on 30th September 2016.

Revocation

2.  The following enactments are revoked—

(a)the Ivory Coast (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2005(3);

(b)the Ivory Coast (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011(4);

(c)paragraph 206 of Schedule 2 to the Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013(5); and

(d)paragraph 12(2)(i) of Part 1 of the Schedule to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2013(6).

Stephen Barclay

David Evennett

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th September 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Ivory Coast (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2005, the Ivory Coast (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011 and various amending provisions as the UN Resolution and Council Regulation on which these measures are based have been revoked.

Resolution 1572, adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations on 15th November 2004, was repealed by Resolution 2283, adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations on 28th April 2016. Council Regulation (EC) No 560/2005 of 12th April 2005 (OJ No L 95, 14.4.2005, p 1) was repealed on 9th June 2016 by Council Regulation (EU) No 2016/907 (OJ No L 153, 10.6.2016, p 1).

(2)

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), Schedule, Part 1. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 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.

(3)

S.I. 2005/253, amended by S.I. 2005/3389.