{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/443",
  "legislation_title": "The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "text": "(1) The Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 31 (“relevant firm”), for “10,000 euros”, in each place it occurs, substitute “£10,000”.\n(3) In regulation 43 (trade enforcement: application of CEMA), after paragraph (3), insert—\n“(3A) The Commissioners may not investigate the suspected commission of a relevant offence listed in paragraphs (3B) or (3C) unless the suspected offence has been the subject of—\n(a) a referral to the Commissioners by the Secretary of State, or\n(b) a decision by the Commissioners to treat the suspected offence as if it had been referred to them under sub-paragraph (a).\n(3B) Paragraph (3A) applies to the suspected commission of an offence under regulation 22(3) (enabling or facilitating the conduct of armed hostilities).\n(3C) Paragraph (3A) also applies to the suspected commission of a relevant offence under regulation 23(2) (circumventing etc. prohibitions), insofar as the prohibited activity to which the suspected offence relates is the circumvention of, or enabling or facilitation of a contravention of, a prohibition in relation to an offence specified in paragraph (3B).”\n(4) Omit regulation 44 (trade offences in CEMA: modification of penalty).\n(5) In regulation 53 (notices)—\n(a) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) The notice may be given to the person by electronic means.”;\n(b) in paragraph (4) omit “, including by electronic means,”.\n(6) In Schedule 2 (Treasury licences: purposes)—\n(a) in paragraph 1 (interpretation), in sub-paragraph (1), in the definition of “frozen funds or economic resources”, omit the words from “, and” to the end;\n(b) omit paragraph 6 (prior obligations).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2020/948; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2022/819, S.I. 2024/644 and S.I. 2024/1157."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/443/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:02:20.897437+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."
}