{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-european-community-financial-sanctions-regulations-2007/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-european-community-financial-sanctions-regulations-2007/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) A person is not guilty of an offence under regulation 6 or 7 if he credits a frozen account with—\n(a) interest or other earnings due on the account; or\n(b) payments due under contracts, agreements or obligations that were concluded or arose prior to 23rd December 2006.\n(2) Regulation 7 does not prevent a relevant institution from crediting a frozen account where it receives funds transferred to a frozen account by a third party.\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt, regulation 6 applies to any funds credited to a frozen account in accordance with this regulation.\n(4) In this regulation “frozen account” means an account with a relevant institution which is held or controlled by a designated person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 3.5.2007, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2613",
      "affecting_title": "The Iran (European Community Financial Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1374/regulation/8",
    "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."
}