The South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 438

PART 10 U.K. Supplementary and final provision

Transitional provision: pending applications for trade licences U.K.

71.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—

(a) an application was made before the relevant date for a licence or authorisation under or pursuant to the Export Control Order 2008,

(b) the application is for authorisation of an act prohibited by Part 5 (Trade), and

(c) a decision to grant or refuse the application has not been made before the relevant date.

(2) The application is to be treated on and after the relevant date as including an application for a licence under regulation 34 (trade licences).

(3) Paragraph (4) applies where—

(a) an application was made before the relevant date for a licence or authorisation under the Export Control (Sudan, South Sudan and Central African Republic Sanctions) Regulations 2014 or the EU South Sudan Regulation,

(b) the application is for authorisation of an act prohibited by Part 5 (Trade), and

(c) a decision to grant or refuse the application has not been made before the relevant date.

(4) The application is to be treated on and after the relevant date as an application for a licence under regulation 34.

(5) In this regulation, “the relevant date” means—

(a) where regulations under section 56 of the Act provide that Part 5 comes into force at a specified time on a day, that time on that day;

(b) otherwise, the date on which Part 5 comes into force.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 71 not in force at made date, see reg. 1(2)

I2 Reg. 71 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2019/627, reg. 6(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)