{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-terrorism-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-terrorism-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-5A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/577",
  "legislation_title": "The Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-terrorism-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/5A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": "Conditions for the designation of persons by name",
  "text": "(1) The Treasury may choose whether to designate a person under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) under—\n(a) the standard procedure, or\n(b) the urgent procedure.\n(2) Paragraph (3) applies where the Treasury choose to designate a person under regulation 5 under the standard procedure.\n(3) The Treasury may not designate a person except where condition A is met.\n(4) Condition A is that the Treasury have reasonable grounds to suspect that that person is an involved person.\n(5) Paragraphs (6) to (8) apply where the Treasury choose to designate a person under regulation 5 under the urgent procedure.\n(6) The Treasury may designate a person where condition A is not met, but conditions B and C are met.\n(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 Treasury certify that—\n(a) condition A is met, or\n(b) conditions B and C continue to be met.\n(8) Where the Treasury make 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 Treasury certify that condition A is met.\n(9) Condition B is that relevant provision (whenever made) applies to, or in relation to, the person under the law of—\n(a) the United States of America;\n(b) the European Union;\n(c) Australia;\n(d) Canada.\n(10) Condition C is that the Treasury consider that it is in the public interest to make designations under the urgent procedure.\n(11) For the purposes of condition B, “relevant provision” is provision that the Treasury consider—\n(a) corresponds, or is similar, to the type of sanction or sanctions in these Regulations, or\n(b) is made for purposes corresponding, or similar, to any purpose of any type of sanction or sanctions in these Regulations.\n(12) In this regulation, “involved person” has the meaning given in regulation 6 (designation criteria: meaning of “involved person”).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5A inserted (18.4.2025) by The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/394), regs. 1(2), 9(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/577/regulation/5A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:44:29.528177+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}