{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-amendment-no-4-regulations-2024/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-amendment-no-4-regulations-2024/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/900",
  "legislation_title": "The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-amendment-no-4-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions relating to legal advisory services",
  "text": "(1) In the heading to regulation 60DB, for “exception” substitute “exceptions”.\n(2) In regulation 60DB—\n(a) for paragraph (2), substitute—\n“(2) The prohibitions in regulation 54D are not contravened by any act done by a person for the purpose of providing legal advisory services in relation to the discharge of or compliance with UK statutory or regulatory obligations.”;\n(b) after paragraph (3), insert—\n“(3A) The prohibitions in regulation 54D are not contravened by any act done by a person for the purpose of providing legal advisory services to any person on or in connection with—\n(a) compliance with, or the consequences of non-compliance with, any relevant law,\n(b) the discharge of obligations under any relevant law, or\n(c) the potential, or actual, application of punitive measures.”;\n(c) in paragraph (5), after the definition of “legal advisory services” insert—\n““punitive measures” mean any sanction which may be applied by a country in relation to a person (“P”) in retaliation for P engaging, or proposing to engage, in conduct which would render P liable to penalties under the law of that country if P were subject to its jurisdiction;\n“relevant law” means—\n(a) any sanction, imposed by any jurisdiction;\n(b) any law of Russia that has as its primary object or effect the frustration of any sanctions referred to in paragraph (a), or\n(c) any criminal law imposed by any jurisdiction;\n“sanction” includes any export or import control or other restrictive measure.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/900/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:59.272356+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."
}