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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/394",
  "legislation_title": "The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025",
  "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”). They make amendments to a number of sanctions regulations which have been made under section 1 of the Sanctions Act.\nThe Regulations make provision to reflect amendments to the Sanctions Act made by the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10) (“the 2022 Act”) which introduced an urgent procedure when designating by name. The 2022 Act provides for sanctions regulations made before the 2022 Act was passed to have effect as if they contain the new procedure, but these Regulations amend the following sanctions regulations to reflect the new procedure on the face of the regulations—\nthe Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/135),\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 Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/554),\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 Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/604),\nthe Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/618),\nthe Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/792),\nthe Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/855),\nthe Guinea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1145),\nthe Cyber (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/597),\nthe Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/608),\nthe Nicaragua (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/610),\nthe Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/616),\nthe Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/642),\nthe Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/680),\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),\nthe Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1474),\nthe Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1665),\nthe Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/488), and\nthe Myanmar (Sanctions) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/496).\nThe Regulations also amend provisions of the Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 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) (see regulation 2(6) and regulation 13(6)).\nThe Regulations amend the Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/600) to correct an error contained in the amending S.I. 2022/748 (see regulation 10).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/394/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:09.539472+00:00"
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  "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."
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