{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iraq-united-nations-sanctions-channel-islands-order-2000/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iraq-united-nations-sanctions-channel-islands-order-2000/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3244",
  "legislation_title": "The Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iraq-united-nations-sanctions-channel-islands-order-2000",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Freezing of funds on suspicion",
  "text": "(1) Where the relevant enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any funds held by any person are or may be—\n(a) funds of the Government of the Republic of Iraq, or a person who is resident in the Republic of Iraq, or\n(b) held on behalf of that Government or any such person,\nit may by notice direct that those funds are not to be made available to that Government or that person, except under the authority of a licence granted under article 5.\n(2) A notice given under paragraph (1) above shall specify the period for which it is to have effect, which shall be not longer than 5 working days.\n(3) In paragraph (2) above, “working day” has, in relation to the Bailiwick of Jersey, the meaning given to it in the Public Holidays and Bank Holidays (Jersey) Law 1951 as amended, and in relation to the Bailiwick of Guernsey means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a public holiday in that Bailiwick.\n(4) The relevant enforcement authority may by notice revoke a direction that they have granted under paragraph (1) at any time.\n(5) The expiry or revocation of a direction shall not affect the application of article 3 in respect of the funds in question.\n(6) A notice under paragraph (1) or (4) above shall be given in writing to the person holding the funds in question (“the recipient”) and shall require the recipient to send a copy of the notice without delay to the person whose funds they are, or on whose behalf they are held (“the owner”).\n(7) A recipient shall be treated as complying with that requirement if, without delay, he sends a copy of the notice to the owner at his last-known address or, if he does not have an address for the owner, he makes arrangements for a copy of the notice to be supplied to the owner at the first available opportunity.\n(8) Any person who contravenes a direction under paragraph (1) above is guilty of an offence.\n(9) A recipient who fails to comply with such a requirement as is mentioned in paragraph (6) above is guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst (prosp)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1521",
      "affecting_title": "The Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1978",
      "affecting_title": "The Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) (Amendment) Order 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3244/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:12.289069+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."
}