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2. 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;
“the Committee” means the Committee of the Security Council established in accordance with paragraph 19 of resolution 2140;
“conduct” includes acts and omissions;
[F1“director disqualification licence” means a licence under regulation 33A;]
“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 EU Yemen Regulation” means Council Regulation (EU) No 1352/2014 of 18 December 2014, concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Yemen M2, as it has effect in EU law;
“final report of the comprehensive National Dialogue Conference” means the final Outcomes Document of the comprehensive National Dialogue Conference held between 18 March 2013 and 25 January 2014 M3;
“Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative” means the Agreement on achieving a political settlement of the crisis in Yemen reached following the initiative proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council on 21 April 2011 M4;
“humanitarian assistance activity” includes the work of international and non-governmental organisations carrying out relief activities in Yemen for the benefit of the civilian population there;
“Implementation Mechanism Agreement” means the Agreement on the implementation mechanism for the transition process in Yemen in accordance with the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council, signed in Riyadh on 23 November 2011 M5;
“resolution 2140” means resolution 2140 (2014) adopted by the Security Council on 26 February 2014;
“resolution 2216” means resolution 2216 (2015) adopted by the Security Council on 14 April 2015;
“resolution 2511” means resolution 2511 (2020) adopted by the Security Council on 25 February 2020;
“trade licence” means a licence under regulation 34;
“Treasury licence” means a licence under regulation 33(1);
“United Kingdom person” has the same meaning as in section 21 of the Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2 inserted (5.6.2024) by The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/644), regs. 1(2), 16(2)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 2 not in force at made date, see reg. 1(2)
I2Reg. 2 in force at 14.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 20(1)
Marginal Citations
M11979 c.2. Amendments have been made to this Act and are cited, where relevant, in respect of the applicable regulations.
M2OJ No. L 365, 19.12.2014, p.60.
M3A copy of the English translation of the Outcomes Document is available online at: https://www.peaceagreements.org/masterdocument/1400.
M4A copy of the English translation of the Agreement is available online at: https://osesgy.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/gcc_initiative_yemen_english.pdf.
M5A copy of the English translation of the Agreement is available online at: https://osesgy.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/5-yemen_mechanism_english_official_v2_0.pdf.
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