{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2024/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2024/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/644",
  "legislation_title": "The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c. 13) (“the Sanctions Act”).\nThese Regulations make amendments to number of sanctions regulations, which have been made under section 1 of the Sanctions Act.\nThese Regulations amend the following sanctions regulations to introduce a new power to designate persons for the purpose of disqualifying those persons from being a director of a company or directly or indirectly taking part in or being concerned in the promotion, formation or management of a company; namely—\nthe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/411),\nthe Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/433),\nthe South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/438),\nthe Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/461),\nthe Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/573),\nthe Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/577),\nthe Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations (S.I. 2020/616),\nthe Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/642),\nthe Mali (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/705),\nthe Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/753),\nthe Yemen (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1278), and\nthe Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1665).\nThe Regulations also amend the following sanctions regulations to make amendment to the provisions relating to the enforcement of trade sanctions, in particular as regards the application of enforcement provisions of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2)—\nthe Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019,\nthe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019,\nthe South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019,\nthe ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/466),\nthe Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020,\nthe Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/707),\nthe Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020,\nthe Syria (United Nations Sanctions) (Cultural Property) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1233), and\nthe Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.\nThey also amend the Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 to introduce immigration sanctions to that regime.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An impact assessment was, however, produced for the Sanctions Act and can be found at—\nhttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/653271/Sanctions_and_Anti-Money_Laundering_Bill_Impact_Assessment_18102017.pdf",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/644/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:29:27.316353+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."
}