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Article 5

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

No person referred to in Article 11 shall comply, whether directly or through a subsidiary or other intermediary person, actively or by deliberate omission, with any requirement or prohibition, including requests of foreign courts, based on or resulting, directly or indirectly, from the laws specified in the Annex or from actions based thereon or resulting therefrom.

F1The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument—

a)

authorise persons to comply fully or partially with any requirement or prohibition referred to in the first paragraph of this Article to the extent that non-compliance would seriously damage their interests or those of the United Kingdom;

b)

make provision in connection with the making and consideration of applications to be so authorised.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in art. 5 substituted (1.1.2021) by The Protecting against the Effects of the Extraterritorial Application of Third Country Legislation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1660), regs. 1, 3(6) (with reg. 6)