Commencement of the Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

2.—(1) The following provisions of the Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1) come into force on 14th December 2020—

(a)regulation 1 (citation and commencement);

(b)regulation 2 (interpretation);

(c)regulation 4 (purposes);

(d)regulation 5 (power to designate persons);

(e)regulation 6 (designation criteria);

(f)regulation 7 (meaning of “owned or controlled directly or indirectly”);

(g)regulation 8 (notification and publicity where designation power used);

(h)Schedule 1 (rules for interpretation of regulation 7(2)).

(2) All provisions of the Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 not mentioned in paragraph (1) come into force on IP completion day(2).

(1)

S.I. 2019/1142, prospectively amended by S.I. 2020/590 and S.I. 2020/951.

(2)

Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30) provides that “IP completion day” has the same meaning as in the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c.1) (see section 39(1) to (5) of that Act).