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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-financial-sanctions-enhanced-penalties-regulations-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/560",
  "legislation_title": "The European Union Financial Sanctions (Enhanced Penalties) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-financial-sanctions-enhanced-penalties-regulations-2017",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 144 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3) (“the 2017 Act”) modifies the application of the European Communities Act 1972 (c.68) (“the 1972 Act”) to enable higher maximum terms of imprisonment for offences relating to EU financial sanctions regimes, to bring these into line with breaches of the UK and EU terrorist asset freezing regimes. Subsections (4) and (5) of section 144 also enable the power in section 2(2) of the 1972 Act to be used to extend the maximum criminal penalties for breaches of EU financial sanctions regimes in respect of criminal offences that have already been created.\nIn exercise of these new powers available under the 1972 Act, as modified by the 2017 Act, these Regulations increase the maximum terms of imprisonment on summary conviction and conviction on indictment in the UK in relation to existing offences. They do so by amending various pieces of secondary legislation which make provision relating to the enforcement in the UK of different EU financial sanctions regimes. Regulation 2 also makes amendments to the enforcement regime in relation to Zimbabwe so that a person guilty of an offence under paragraph 4(b) or (d) of the Schedule to the Zimbabwe (Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/847) is liable only on summary conviction, to bring this into line with other regimes in the United Kingdom. An impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument because no significant impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/560/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:18.079237+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."
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