Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018;

• “arrangement” includes any agreement, understanding, scheme, transaction or series of transactions, whether or not legally enforceable (but see paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 for the meaning of that term in that Schedule);

• “CEMA” means the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 M1;

• “the Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;

• “conduct” includes acts and omissions;

• F1“director disqualification licence” means a licence under regulation 35A;

• “document” includes information recorded in any form and, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, references to its production include producing a copy of the information in legible form;

• “the Dual-Use Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items;

• “the EU Venezuela Regulation” means Council Regulation (EU) No 2063/2017 of 13 November 2017 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela M2, as it has effect in EU law;

• “the Government of Venezuela” includes its public bodies, corporations or agencies, or any person acting on its behalf or at its direction;

• “serious human rights violation or abuse” means a serious violation or abuse of any of the human rights specified in regulation 4(d);

• “trade licence” means a licence under regulation 36;

• “Treasury licence” means a licence under regulation 35(1);

• “United Kingdom person” has the same meaning as in section 21 of the Act.