The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2018

Made: 12th December 2018

Laid before Parliament: 19th December 2018

Coming into force: 9th January 2019

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of December 2018

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

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Citation, commencement and extent

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Application of the Order

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Interpretation

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PART 1 — Freezing funds etc.

Dealing with funds and economic resources

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Credits to a frozen account

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Information relating to funds etc.

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PART 2 — General

Licences granted by the Governor

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Licences granted outside the Territory

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Claims for indemnity or under contract

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Requirement to publish a list of designated persons

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Evidence and information

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Functions of the Governor

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Circumvention and contravention of prohibitions

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Penalties

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Proceedings

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SCHEDULE 1 — Territories to which this Order extends

• Anguilla

• British Antarctic Territory

• British Indian Ocean Territory

• Cayman Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Montserrat

• Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

• St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus

• Turks and Caicos Islands

• Virgin Islands

SCHEDULE 2 — Modifications to article 14 in relation to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

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SCHEDULE 3 — Evidence and information

Power to require information, documents or goods

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Search warrants

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Offences

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Exercise of powers: general

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Interpretation

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Signed

Richard Tilbrook — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1833 c.85.

[^f00002]: 1887 c.54 and 1945 c.7.

[^f00003]: O.J. L. 259, 16.10.2018, p12. The Council Regulation provides that chemical weapons means chemical weapons as defined in Article II of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, signed at Paris on 13th January 1993. The Convention can be found at https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention.

[^f00004]: 2000 c.8; section 22 was amended by the Financial Services Act 2012 (c.21), section 7(1), the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 (c.10), section 27(4), and the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018/135, regulation 38.

• Anguilla

• British Antarctic Territory

• British Indian Ocean Territory

• Cayman Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Montserrat

• Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

• St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus

• Turks and Caicos Islands

• Virgin Islands

Editorial notes

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