# The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Regulation 61ZA: Trade: exception for humanitarian assistance activity in non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts


(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.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation—
“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;
“relevant activity” means any activity which would, in the absence of this regulation, contravene a relevant prohibition;
“relevant prohibition” means—
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/855/regulation/61ZA (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/russia-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-61ZA
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