{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-54C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-54C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/855",
  "legislation_title": "The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/54C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54C",
  "heading": "Professional and business services",
  "text": "(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide, to a person connected with Russia—\n(a) accounting services,\n(b) advertising services,\n(c) architectural services,\n(d) auditing services,\n(e) business and management consulting services,\n(ea) construction services;\n(f) engineering services,\n(g) IT consultancy and design services, or\n(h) public relations services.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (exceptions and licences).\n(3) A person who contravenes any of the prohibitions in paragraph (1) (“P”) commits an offence, but it is a defence for P to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom the services were provided was connected with Russia.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 5 Ch. 6B inserted (21.7.2022) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 14) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/850), regs. 1(2), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 54C(1)(a)-(h) substituted for reg. 54C(1)(a)-(c) (16.12.2022) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1331), regs. 1(2)(b), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 54C(1)(ea) inserted (20.5.2026) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/543), regs. 1(2), 12(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/855/regulation/54C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:41:25.449074+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."
}