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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-security-act-2023-foreign-activities-and-foreign-influence-registration-scheme-specified-persons-russia-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348270778",
  "legislation_title": "The National Security Act 2023 (Foreign Activities and Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: Specified Persons) (Russia) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-security-act-2023-foreign-activities-and-foreign-influence-registration-scheme-specified-persons-russia-regulations-2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations specify certain Russian foreign powers and other persons as “specified persons” for the purposes of Part 4 of the National Security Act 2023 (c. 32) (“the 2023 Act”) (foreign activities and foreign influence registration scheme).\nThe specified foreign powers are those listed in Part 1 of the Schedule. In summary, they are the President of Russia, the Government of Russia (including all its agencies and authorities) and the governments of the federal subjects of Russia. There are 83 federal subjects, including republics and oblasts. The specified persons who are not foreign powers are listed in Part 2 of the Schedule. They are the Federal Assembly of Russia, the judiciary of Russia and certain political parties.\nThe effect of specification is that a person who enters into an arrangement with a specified person and is directed under that arrangement to carry out activities in the United Kingdom, or arrange for others to do so, must register the arrangement before acting (see sections 65 and 67 of the 2023 Act). In addition, a specified person who is not a foreign power must not carry out activities in the United Kingdom unless those activities have been registered in advance (see section 68 of the 2023 Act). There are criminal offences in the 2023 Act for failure to act in accordance with these obligations and prohibitions.\nRegulation 3 makes provision to apply the relevant requirements under Part 4 of the 2023 Act to existing arrangements or agreements made prior to the commencement of these Regulations, and makes a transitional provision.\nAn impact assessment accompanies these Regulations and is published on the www.gov.uk website. Copies may also be obtained by e-mailing firs@homeoffice.gov.uk or writing to the State Threats Unit, Home Office, Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348270778/note",
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  "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."
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