PART 3Finance
CHAPTER 2Other financial and investment restrictions
Loans and credit arrangementsI117
1
A person (“P”) must not directly or indirectly grant a relevant loan if P knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that P is granting a relevant loan.
2
A person must not directly or indirectly enter into any arrangement to grant a relevant loan if the person knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that the arrangement relates to a relevant loan.
3
Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to F4Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).
4
A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) or (2) commits an offence.
5
In this regulation—
F1“category 1 loan” means a loan or credit—
- a
with a maturity exceeding 30 days,
- b
made or granted to—
- i
a person falling within Schedule 2,
- ii
a person, other than an individual, which is—
- aa
incorporated or constituted under the law of a non-UK country, and
- bb
owned (within the meaning of regulation 16(7)) by a person within paragraph (i), or
- aa
- iii
a person, other than an individual, acting on behalf or at the direction of a person within paragraph (i) or paragraph (ii), and
- i
- c
which is first made or granted at any time after IP completion day;
- a
“category 2 loan” means a loan or credit—
- a
with a maturity exceeding 30 days,
- b
made or granted to a person, other than an individual, which is—
- i
incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the United Kingdom, and
- ii
owned (within the meaning of regulation 16(7)) by a person falling within Schedule 2, and
- i
- c
which is first made or granted at any time on or after 1st March 2022;
- a
“category 3 loan” means a loan or credit—
- a
with a maturity exceeding 30 days,
- b
made or granted to a person, other than an individual, which is—
- i
connected with Russia,
- ii
owned (within the meaning of regulation 16(7)) by a person within sub-paragraph (i), or
- iii
a person, other than an individual, acting on behalf or at the direction of a person within paragraph (i) or paragraph (ii),
- i
- c
which is first made or granted at any time on or after 1st March 2022, and
- d
which is not—
- i
a category 1 loan, a category 2 loan or a category 4 loan, or
- ii
a loan made or granted to—
- aa
a person, other than an individual, which on 1st March 2022 is domiciled in a country other than Russia,
- bb
a person, other than an individual, which is owned by a person falling within sub-paragraph (aa), or
- cc
a person, other than an individual, acting on behalf or at the direction of a person within sub-paragraph (aa) or sub-paragraph (bb);
- aa
- i
- a
“category 4 loan” means a loan or credit—
- a
made or granted to the Government of Russia,
- b
which is first made or granted at any time on or after 1st March 2022;
- a
“non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom;
F2“relevant loan” means a category 1 loan, a category 2 loan, a category 3 loan or a category 4 loan;
F3...