PART 6Exceptions and licences

Treasury licences40.

(1)

The prohibitions in regulations 12 to 17 (asset-freeze etc) do not apply to anything done under the authority of a licence issued by the Treasury under this paragraph.

(2)

The Treasury may issue a licence which authorises acts by a particular person in relation to a non-UN designated person only where the Treasury consider that it is appropriate to issue the licence for a purpose set out in F1Part 1 or 2 of Schedule 2.

(3)

The Treasury may issue a licence which authorises acts in relation to a UN designated person only where the Treasury consider that it is appropriate to issue the licence for a purpose set out in Part 1 F2or 1A of Schedule 2.

(4)

In paragraph (3) “UN designated person” means a person who is a designated person for the purposes of regulations 12 to 17 by reason of regulation 10 (designation of persons named by or under UN Security Council Resolutions).

F3(5)

The reference in paragraph (2) to a non-UN designated person is to be read as including a person who is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 7) by the non-UN designated person.

(6)

The reference in paragraph (3) to a UN designated person is to be read as including a person who is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 7) by the UN designated person.