The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

[F1 Trade: exception for humanitarian assistance activity in non-government controlled areas of the [F2 Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts] U.K.

61ZA.— (1) A relevant prohibition is not contravened by a person (“P”) carrying out a relevant activity which is necessary to ensure the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance activity in non-government controlled areas of the [F3 Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts] provided that P believes that carrying out the relevant activity is so necessary and there is no reasonable cause for P to suspect otherwise.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation—

“humanitarian assistance activity” includes the work of international and non-governmental organisations carrying out relief activities for the benefit of the civilian population of the non-government controlled areas of the [F4 Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts];

“relevant activity” means any activity which would, in the absence of this regulation, contravene a relevant prohibition;

“relevant prohibition” means—

(a)

any prohibition in regulations 48 to 51, 52(1), (2) or (3)(b) to (e) (trade in relation to non-government controlled Ukrainian territory), or 54(1)(a) (prohibition on infrastructure-related services relating to non-government controlled Ukrainian territory), or

(b)

any prohibition in regulation 53(1)(b) to (g) (brokering services: non-UK activity relating to infrastructure-related goods and goods from non-government controlled Ukrainian territory), except for any such prohibition which relates to an arrangement whose object or effect is the import of goods which originate in non-government controlled Ukrainian territory.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 61ZA inserted (18.7.2022 at 5.00 p.m.) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/814), regs. 1(2), 4

F2 Words in reg. 61ZA heading substituted (20.6.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/665), regs. 1(2), 10(a)

F3 Words in reg. 61ZA(1) substituted (20.6.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/665), regs. 1(2), 10(b)

F4 Words in reg. 61ZA(2) substituted (20.6.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/665), regs. 1(2), 10(c)