{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-61ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-61ZA.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/61ZA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61ZA",
  "heading": "Trade: exception for humanitarian assistance activity in non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts",
  "text": "(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, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia 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, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia 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": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 61ZA inserted (18.7.2022 at 5.00 p.m.) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/814), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61ZA(1) substituted (20.6.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/665), regs. 1(2), 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61ZA(2) substituted (20.6.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/665), regs. 1(2), 10(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61ZA heading substituted (20.6.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/665), regs. 1(2), 10(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/855/regulation/61ZA",
    "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."
}