The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025

Amendment of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

14.—(1) The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 5(1) (power to designate persons) after “persons by name” insert “in accordance with regulation 5A (conditions for the designation of persons by name)”.

(3)  After regulation 5 insert—

Conditions for the designation of persons by name

5A.— (1) The Secretary of State may choose whether to designate a person under regulation 5(1) (power to designate persons by name) under—

(a) the standard procedure, or

(b) the urgent procedure.

(2) Paragraph (3) applies where the Secretary of State chooses to designate a person under regulation 5(1) under the standard procedure.

(3) The Secretary of State may not designate a person except where condition A is met.

(4) Condition A is that the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to suspect that that person is an involved person.

(5) Paragraphs (6) to (8) apply where the Secretary of State chooses to designate a person under regulation 5(1) under the urgent procedure.

(6) The Secretary of State may designate a person where condition A is not met, but conditions B and C are met.

(7) The person ceases to be a designated person at the end of the period of 56 days beginning with the day following the day on which the person became a designated person unless, within that period, the Secretary of State certifies that—

(a) condition A is met, or

(b) conditions B and C continue to be met.

(8) Where the Secretary of State makes a certification under paragraph (7)(b), the designation ceases to have effect at the end of the period of 56 days beginning with the day immediately following the period mentioned in paragraph (7), unless within that period the Secretary of State certifies that condition A is met.

(9) Condition B is that relevant provision (whenever made) applies to, or in relation to, the person under the law of—

(a) the United States of America;

(b) the European Union;

(c) Australia;

(d) Canada.

(10) Condition C is that the Secretary of State considers that it is in the public interest to make designations under the urgent procedure.

(11) For the purposes of condition B, “relevant provision” is provision that the Secretary of State considers—

(a) corresponds, or is similar, to the type of sanction or sanctions in these Regulations, or

(b) is made for purposes corresponding, or similar, to any purpose of any type of sanction or sanctions in these Regulations.

(12) In this regulation, “involved person” has the meaning given in regulation 6 (designation criteria: meaning of “involved person”).”.

(4) In regulation 6 (designation criteria)—

(a) for the heading, substitute “Designation criteria: meaning of “involved person””;

(b) omit paragraph (1);

(c) in paragraph (2), in the words before sub-paragraph (a), for “In this regulation” substitute “For the purposes of regulations 5A and 6A (conditions for the designation of persons)”.

(5) In regulation 6A(13) (conditions for the designation of persons by description)(2), for “(designation criteria)” substitute “(designation criteria: meaning of “involved person”)”.

(6) In regulation 8 (notification and publicity where designation power used)—

(a) in the heading, for “designation power” substitute “power to designate by name is”;

(b) for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) The information given under paragraph (2)(a)—

(a) where the Secretary of State designates a person under the standard procedure, must include a statement of reasons;

(b) where the Secretary of State designates a person under the urgent procedure, must include a statement—

(i) that the designation is made under the urgent procedure,

(ii) identifying the relevant provision by reference to which the Secretary of State considers that condition B is met in relation to the person, and

(iii) setting out why the Secretary of State considers that condition C is met.

(3A) Where the Secretary of State designates a person under the urgent procedure, the Secretary of State must, after the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (7) of regulation 5A (conditions for the designation of persons by name) or, if the Secretary of State has made a certification under paragraph (7)(b) of that regulation, the period mentioned in paragraph (8) of that regulation, but otherwise without delay—

(a) in a case where the person ceases to be a designated person, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to inform the person that they have ceased to be a designated person, or

(b) in any other case, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to give the person a statement of reasons.”;

(c) for paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4) In this regulation, a “statement of reasons” means a brief statement of the matters that the Secretary of State knows, or has reasonable grounds to suspect, in relation to the person—

(a) in the case of a designation under the standard procedure, which have led the Secretary of State to make the designation, and

(b) in the case of a designation under the urgent procedure, as a result of which the person does not cease to be a designated person at the end of the period mentioned in regulation 5A(7) or (8) (as the case may be).”.

(1)

S.I. 2019/855, amended by the Sentencing Act 2020, Schedule 24, paragraph 446(1) and by S.I. 2020/590, 951, 2022/123, 194, 195, 203, 205, 241, 395, 452, 477, 500, 792, 801, 814, 818, 850, 1110, 1122, 1331, 2023/149, 440, 665, 713, 1364, 1367, 2024/218, 643, 834, 900, 1157.

(2)

Regulation 6A was inserted by S.I. 2022/395.