{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-amendment-no-13-regulations-2022/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-amendment-no-13-regulations-2022/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/814",
  "legislation_title": "The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-amendment-no-13-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Trade: humanitarian exception",
  "text": "After regulation 61 (trade: exception for emergencies in certain cases), insert—\n“Trade: exception for humanitarian assistance activity in non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts\n61ZA. (1) A relevant prohibition is not contravened by a person (“P”) carrying out a relevant activity which is necessary to ensure the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance activity in non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts provided that P believes that carrying out the relevant activity is so necessary and there is no reasonable cause for P to suspect otherwise.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation—\n“humanitarian assistance activity” includes the work of international and non-governmental organisations carrying out relief activities for the benefit of the civilian population of the non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts;\n“relevant activity” means any activity which would, in the absence of this regulation, contravene a relevant prohibition;\n“relevant prohibition” means—\n(a) any prohibition in regulations 48 to 51, 52(1), (2) or (3)(b) to (e) (trade in relation to non-government controlled Ukrainian territory), or 54(1)(a) (prohibition on infrastructure-related services relating to non-government controlled Ukrainian territory), or\n(b) any prohibition in regulation 53(1)(b) to (g) (brokering services: non-UK activity relating to infrastructure-related goods and goods from non-government controlled Ukrainian territory), except for any such prohibition which relates to an arrangement whose object or effect is the import of goods which originate in non-government controlled Ukrainian territory.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/814/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:57:25.241989+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."
}