{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guinea-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1145",
  "legislation_title": "The Guinea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guinea-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Designation criteria: meaning of “involved person”",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) For the purposes of regulation 5A (conditions for the designation of persons by name) an “involved person” means a person who—\n(a) is or has been involved in the violent repression in Guinea on 28th September 2009, or the aftermath of that violent repression;\n(b) is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 7) by a person who is or has been so involved,\n(c) is acting on behalf of or at the direction of a person who is or has been so involved, or\n(d) is a member of, or associated with, a person who is or has been so involved.\n(3) Any reference in this regulation to being involved in an activity set out in paragraph (2)(a) above means —\n(a) being responsible for the violent repression;\n(b) participating in, providing support for, or promoting the violent repression including through the use or threat of violence during the violent repression or in its aftermath;\n(c) being involved in the commission of a serious human rights violation or abuse during the violent repression, or in its aftermath, in particular in the context of—\n(i) the right to life;\n(ii) the right of persons not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including rape or sexual violence;\n(iii) the right to not be held in slavery or servitude;\n(iv) the right to liberty and security, including the right not to be subject to arbitrary arrest and detention;\n(v) the right to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly;\n(d) interfering with the access to medical care by a victim of the violent repression or its aftermath;\n(e) being involved in assisting the contravention or circumvention of any relevant provision.\n(4) In this regulation “relevant provision” means—\n(a) any provision of Part 3 (finance);\n(b) any provision of the law of a country other than the United Kingdom made for purposes corresponding to a purpose of any provision of Part 3.\n(5) Nothing in any sub-paragraph of paragraph (3) is to be taken to limit the meaning of any of the other sub-paragraphs of that paragraph.\n(6) Any reference in this regulation to being involved in the violent repression in Guinea on 28th September 2009, or the aftermath of that repression, includes being so involved wherever any actions constituting the involvement take place.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1) omitted (18.4.2025) by virtue of The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/394), regs. 1(2), 15(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2) substituted (18.4.2025) by The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/394), regs. 1(2), 15(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 6 heading substituted (18.4.2025) by The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/394), regs. 1(2), 15(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 14.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1145/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:26.363070+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."
}