1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the United Nations and European Union Financial Sanctions (Linking) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st April 2017.

2 Linking provisions
1 For the purposes of section 155 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017, each UN financial sanctions Resolution listed in the first column of the table in the Schedule to these Regulations is linked to the EU financial sanctions Regulation listed in the corresponding entry in the second column of the table.
2 In these Regulations, any reference to a UN financial sanctions Resolution or to an EU financial sanctions Regulation is to have effect as a reference to the UN financial sanctions Resolution or (as the case may be) to the EU financial sanctions Regulation as varied or supplemented from time to time.
David Evennett Guto Bebb Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury At 11.00 a.m. on 28th March 2017