PART 1 U.K.Sanctions regulations

CHAPTER 2U.K.Review by appropriate Minister, and other reviews

Revocation, variation and review of designationsU.K.

25Right of UN-named person to request reviewU.K.

(1)This section applies where—

(a)the purpose, or a purpose, of a provision of regulations under section 1 is compliance with an obligation to take particular measures that the United Kingdom has by virtue of a UN Security Council Resolution (“the Resolution”),

(b)a person is a designated person for the purposes of that provision, and

(c)the person is such a designated person under provision included in the regulations by virtue of section 13 (persons named by or under UN Security Council Resolutions).

(2)The person may request the Secretary of State to use the Secretary of State's best endeavours to secure that the person's name is removed from the relevant UN list.

(3)But where a person has made a request under this section in respect of a designation, that person may make no further request under this section in respect of that designation unless the grounds on which the further request is made are or include that there is a significant matter which has not previously been considered by the Secretary of State.

(4)On a request under this section the Secretary of State must decide whether or not to comply with the request.

(5)For the purposes of this section a person's name is “removed from the relevant UN list” if the person ceases to be named (by the Security Council or a subsidiary organ of the Security Council) for the purposes of the Resolution so far as it provides for the taking of the measures in question.

Commencement Information

I1S. 25 in force at 22.11.2018 by S.I. 2018/1213, reg. 2(a)