The Somalia (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2002

Citation, commencement, operation, extent and amendment

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Somalia (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 24th October 2002.

(2) If the Security Council of the United Nations takes any decision which has the effect of cancelling or suspending the operation of the resolutions adopted by it on 23rd January 1992, 19th June 2001 and 22nd July 2002, in whole or in part, this Order shall cease to have effect or its operation shall be suspended, in whole or in part, as the case may be, in accordance with that decision; and particulars of that decision shall be published by the Secretary of State in a notice in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

(3) This Order shall extend to the United Kingdom.

(4) Articles 3, 4 and 5 shall apply to any person within the United Kingdom and to any person elsewhere who is—

(a) a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, a British National (Overseas) or a British protected person; or

(b) a body incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.

(5) The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Liberia, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia) Order 1993(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) by deleting the word “Somalia” from the following provisions of that Order—

(i) the definition of “prohibited destination” in article 2; and

(ii) paragraph (ii) of the definition of “prohibited goods” in article 2;

(b) by deleting the words “Somalia or” from the following provisions of that Order—

(i) paragraph 8(c) of article 8; and

(ii) paragraph 4(c) of the Schedule.

(1)

S.I. 1993/1787, as amended by S.I. 1994/1637, 1996/1629, 1997/273, 1998/1501, 2000/1106 and 2001/94.