# The Sanctions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Overseas Territories) Order 2025, Paragraph 3


After paragraph 53 insert—
“53A For regulation 81ZA (asset-freeze etc.: exception from prohibitions for required payments) substitute—
“Asset-freeze etc.: exception from prohibitions for required payments
81ZA (1) This regulation applies to required payments within the meaning of paragraph (2).
(2) A required payment is a payment which a designated person is required to make under or by virtue of any enactment which applies in the Territory to—
(a) a government department or body,
(b) a customs authority,
(c) a revenue authority,
(d) a registrar of companies,
(e) a financial regulator,
(f) a land authority, or
(g) a consolidated fund.
(3) The prohibitions in regulations 13 (asset-freeze in relation to designated persons) and 15 (making funds available for benefit of designated persons) are not contravened by a person making a required payment.
(4) Where a required payment is made by a person other than a non-UN designated person, the prohibition in regulation 13 is not contravened by the non-UN designated person making a reimbursement payment to that person.
(5) The reference in paragraph (3) to a person making a required payment—
(a) does not include a UN designated person, and
(b) only includes a non-UN designated person where they are making a required payment on their own behalf.
(6) For the purposes of this regulation—
(a) references to a non-UN designated person are to be read as including a person who is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 7) by the non-UN designated person, and
(b) the reference in paragraph (5) to a UN designated person is to be read as including a person who is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 7) by the UN designated person.
(7) In this regulation—
“designated person” has the same meaning as it has in Part 4 (finance);
“non-UN designated person” means a person—
(a) who is designated under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) for the purposes of regulations 13 to 17 (asset-freeze etc.), and
(b) whose designation, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, is not required by a provision mentioned in regulation 4(3) (purposes);
“reimbursement payment” means a repayment from the non-UN designated person to the person who made a required payment which is of the same amount as that required payment;
“UN designated person” means—
(a) a person who is a designated person for the purposes of regulations 13 to 17 by reason of regulation 10 (designation of persons named by or under UN Security Council Resolutions), or
(b) a person who is designated under regulation 5 (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) for the purposes of regulations 13 to 17 and whose designation is (in the opinion of the Secretary of State) required by paragraph 32 of resolution 2270 or a provision mentioned in regulation 4(4).”.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1307/schedule/3/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-miscellaneous-amendments-overseas-territories-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-3
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