# The South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Regulation 4: Purposes

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The regulations contained in this instrument that are made under section 1 of the Act have the following purposes—
(a) compliance with the relevant UN obligations, and
(b) the additional purposes mentioned in paragraph (2).
(2) Those additional purposes are—
(a) promoting the peace, stability and security of South Sudan,
(b) encouraging the resolution of the political crisis and armed conflicts in South Sudan, including the implementation of the ARCSS and R-ARCSS,
(c) promoting the effective delivery of the mandates of the regional or international monitoring and peace-support missions and mechanisms in South Sudan, including—
(i) the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism ,
(ii) the Revitalised Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission , and
(iii) the United Nations Mission in South Sudan ,
(d) promoting respect for humanitarian assistance activities in South Sudan,
(e) promoting compliance with the rules of international humanitarian law applicable to the armed conflicts in South Sudan, and
(f) promoting respect for human rights in South Sudan, including, in particular, respect for—
(i) the right to life of persons in South Sudan;
(ii) the right of persons in South Sudan not to be held in slavery or required to perform forced or compulsory labour;
(iii) the right of persons not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in South Sudan, including in the context of—
(aa) violence against persons on the basis of their ethnicity,
(bb) rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, or
(cc) recruitment or use of children as soldiers;
(iv) the right to liberty and security of persons in South Sudan, including freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention or enforced disappearance,
(v) the right to a fair trial of persons charged with criminal offences in South Sudan;
(vi) the rights of journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists and other persons in South Sudan to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly;
(vii) the enjoyment of rights and freedoms in South Sudan without discrimination, including on the basis of a person's sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status,
otherwise than by compliance with the relevant UN obligations.
(3) In this regulation, “the relevant UN obligations” means—
(a) the obligations that the United Kingdom has by virtue of paragraph 12 of resolution 2206 (asset-freeze) to take the measures required by that provision in respect of persons for the time being named for the purposes of that provision by the Security Council or the Committee;
(b) the obligations that the United Kingdom has by virtue of paragraph 12 of resolution 2206 (asset-freeze) in respect of persons—
(i) acting on behalf of or at the direction of, or
(ii) owned or controlled by,
the persons for the time being named by the Security Council or the Committee for the purposes of paragraph 12 of resolution 2206;
(c) the obligations that the United Kingdom has by virtue of paragraph 4 of resolution 2428 (arms embargo).
(4) In this regulation, any reference to the obligations that the United Kingdom has by virtue of paragraph 12 of resolution 2206 (asset-freeze) is to that provision read with—
(a) paragraphs 6 to 8 of resolution 2206;
(b) paragraphs 8 to 10 of resolution 2290;
(c) paragraphs 13 to 17 of resolution 2428.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/438/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/south-sudan-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-4
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