The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2021

Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 628 (C. 26)

Sanctions

The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2021

Made

26th May 2021

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 64(2) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018(1), makes the following Regulations:

Citation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2021.

Commencement

2.  The following provisions of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made—

(a) section 59(4), in so far as it is not already in force;

(b) paragraph 8(4) of Schedule 3.

Nigel Adams

Minister of State

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

26th May 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring into force paragraph 8(4) of Schedule 3 to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c.13) (“the Act”). This provides for the repeal of sections 152 to 156 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3).

The powers in section 152 to 156 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 enabled the government to make temporary provisions to implement United Nations (“UN”) financial sanctions without delay so that, while such sanctions were implemented in the United Kingdom by way of European Union Council Regulations, there was no implementation gap between the UN agreeing the sanctions and the European Union adopting them. These powers are no longer necessary since the United Kingdom has withdrawn from the European Union and the powers in the Act enable UN sanctions to be implemented by the United Kingdom directly.

Certain provisions of the Act came into force on Royal Assent by virtue of section 64(1) of the Act. Certain other provisions of the Act were brought into force by the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1213 (C. 85)) and the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1535 (C. 43)).

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The following provisions of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 have been brought into force by commencement regulations made before the date of these Regulations.

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No
Sections 1 to 31	22.11.2018	2018/1213
Sections 33 to 48	22.11.2018	2018/1213
Section 49	31.12.2020	2020/1535
Section 51	15.12.2020	2020/1535
Sections 57 and 58	22.11.2018	2018/1213
Section 59(1) to (3)	31.12.2020	2020/1535
Section 59(4) (partially)	22.11.2018	2018/1213
Section 59(5) (partially)	31.12.2020	2020/1535
Schedule 1	22.11.2018	2018/1213
Schedule 2	31.12.2020	2020/1535
Paragraphs 1 to 7, and sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) of paragraph 8, of Schedule 3	22.11.2018	2018/1213
Paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 (partially)	31.12.2020	2020/1535
Paragraph 10 of Schedule 3	31.12.2020	2020/1535

(1)

2018 c. 13.