{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-european-community-financial-sanctions-regulations-2007/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-european-community-financial-sanctions-regulations-2007/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1374",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (European Community Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-european-community-financial-sanctions-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Freezing funds and economic resources of designated persons",
  "text": "(1) A person (including the designated person) must not deal with funds or economic resources owned, held or controlled by a designated person unless he does so under the authority of a licence granted under regulation 10.\n(2) A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) is guilty of an offence.\n(3) In proceedings for an offence under this regulation, it is a defence for a person to show that he did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that he was dealing with funds or economic resources owned, held or controlled by a designated person.\n(4) In this regulation, “deal with” means—\n(a) in respect of funds—\n(i) use, alter, move, allow access to or transfer;\n(ii) deal with in any other way that would result in any change in volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character or destination; or\n(iii) make any other change that would enable use, including portfolio management; and\n(b) in respect of economic resources, use to obtain funds, goods or services in any way, including (but not limited to) by selling, hiring or mortgaging the resources.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 3.5.2007, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1374/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:53:17.714124+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."
}