The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

PART 8 Supplementary and final provision

Notices

37.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to a notice required by regulation 21 (licences: general provisions) to be given to a person.

(2) The notice may be given to an individual—

(a) by delivering it to the individual,

(b) by sending it to the individual by post addressed to the individual at his or her usual or last-known place of residence or business, or

(c) by leaving it for the individual at that place.

(3) The notice may be given to a person other than an individual—

(a) by sending it by post to the proper officer of the body at its principal office, or

(b) by addressing it to the proper officer of the body and leaving it at that office.

(4) The notice may be given to the person by other means, including by electronic means, with the person’s consent.

(5) In this regulation, the reference in paragraph (3) to a “principal office”—

(a) in relation to a registered company, is to be read as a reference to the company’s registered office;

(b) in relation to a body incorporated or constituted under the law of a country other than the United Kingdom, includes a reference to the body’s principal office in the United Kingdom (if any).

(6) In this regulation—

“proper officer”—

(a)

in relation to a body other than a partnership, means the secretary or other executive officer charged with the conduct of the body’s general affairs, and

(b)

in relation to a partnership, means a partner or a person who has the control or management of the partnership business;

“registered company” means a company registered under the enactments relating to companies for the time being in force in the United Kingdom.

Revocation of the Chemical Weapons Council Regulation

38.  Council Regulation (EU) No 2018/1542 of 15 October 2018, concerning restrictive measures against the proliferation and use of chemical weapons is revoked.

Amendments

39.—(1) The Chemical Weapons (Asset-Freezing) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018(1) is amended as follows.

(2) Omit regulation 2.

(3) Omit Parts 2 to 4 and the Schedule.

Transitional provision: Treasury licences

40.—(1) Paragraphs (2) to (4) apply to a licence which—

(a) was granted, or deemed to be granted, by the Treasury under regulation 9 of the 2018 Regulations,

(b) was in effect immediately before the relevant date, and

(c) authorises conduct which would (on and after the relevant date, and in the absence of paragraphs (2) to (4)) be prohibited under Part 3 (Finance),

and such a licence is referred to in this regulation as “an existing financial sanctions licence”.

(2) An existing financial sanctions licence which authorises an act which would otherwise be prohibited has effect on and after the relevant date as if it had been issued by the Treasury under regulation 20(1) (Treasury licences).

(3) Any reference in an existing financial sanctions licence to the 2018 Regulations is to be treated on and after the relevant date as a reference to these Regulations.

(4) Any reference in an existing financial sanctions licence to a prohibition in—

(a) the 2018 Regulations, or

(b) the EU Chemical Weapons Regulation,

is to be treated on and after the relevant date as a reference to the corresponding prohibition in Part 3.

(5) Paragraph (6) applies where—

(a) an application for a licence, or for the variation of a licence, under the 2018 Regulations was made before the relevant date,

(b) the application is for the authorisation of conduct which would (on and after the relevant date) be prohibited under Part 3, and

(c) a decision to grant or refuse the application has not been made before that date.

(6) The application is to be treated on and after the relevant date as an application for a licence, or for the variation of a licence (as the case may be), under regulation 20(1) (Treasury licences).

(7) In this regulation—

“the 2018 Regulations” means the Chemical Weapons (Asset-Freezing) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018;

“the relevant date” means—

(a)

where regulations under section 56 of the Act provide that Part 3 comes into force at a specified time on a day, that time on that day, and

(b)

otherwise, the date on which Part 3 comes into force.

Transitional provision: prior obligations etc

41.—(1) Where—

(a) a person was named in Annex Ⅰ of the EU Chemical Weapons Regulation immediately before the relevant date, and

(b) the person is a designated person immediately before the relevant date,

any reference in a provision mentioned in paragraph (2) to the date on which a person became a designated person is a reference to the date on which the person was named in that Annex.

(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) regulation 18(5) (finance: exception from prohibitions), and

(b) paragraphs 6(b)(i) and 9(a) of Schedule 2 (Treasury licenses: purposes).

(3) In paragraph (1)—

“designated person” has the same meaning as it has in Part 3 (Finance);

“the relevant date” means—

(a)

where regulations under section 56 of the Act provide that Part 3 comes into force at a specified time on a day, that time on that day, and

(b)

otherwise, the date on which Part 3 comes into force.

(1)

S.I. 2018/1090.