Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1589

Overseas Territories

Sanctions

The Yemen (Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2020

Made

16th December 2020

Laid before Parliament

23rd December 2020

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1)

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 16th day of December 2020

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Under Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations the Security Council of the United Nations has, by a resolution adopted on 26th February 2014, called upon Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom to apply certain measures to give effect to decisions of that Council in relation to Yemen(1):

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1 of the United Nations Act 1946(2) and section 63(3)(c) and (4) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018(3), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order:

(1)

The Security Council of the United Nations adopted resolution 2140 (2014) (travel ban; asset-freeze and targeted arms embargo) on 26 February 2014 (“resolution 2140”). Paragraph 15 of resolution 2140 requires States to take necessary measures to prevent the entry into or transit through their territories of persons designated by the Committee established pursuant to paragraph 19 of that resolution. Paragraph 15 of resolution 2140 was renewed by paragraph 2 of resolution 2204 (2015) adopted by the Security Council on 24 February 2015, paragraph 2 of resolution 2266 (2016) adopted by the Security Council on 24 February 2016, paragraph 2 of resolution 2342 (2017) adopted by the Security Council on 23 February 2017, paragraph 2 of resolution 2402 (2018) adopted by the Security Council on 26 February 2018, paragraph 2 of resolution 2456 (2019) adopted by the Security Council on 26 February 2019, and paragraph 2 of resolution 2511 (2020) adopted by the Security Council on 25 February 2020.