# The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Regulation 2: Interpretation


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 ;
“the Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;
“conduct” includes acts and omissions;
“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 , 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/135/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/venezuela-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-2
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