(1) The prohibitions in regulations 37(1) (export of goods of strategic concern), 38(1) (supply and delivery of goods of strategic concern), 39(1) (making goods of strategic concern and technology of strategic concern available), 40(1) (transfer of technology of strategic concern), 41(1) (technical assistance relating to goods of strategic concern and technology of strategic concern), 42(1) to (3) (financial services and funds relating to goods of strategic concern and technology of strategic concern), and 43(1) (brokering services: non-UK activity relating to goods of strategic concern and technology of strategic concern) are not contravened by a relevant activity in relation to any goods of strategic concern or technology of strategic concern which are—

(a) the personal effects of a person travelling to Iran,

(b) of a non-commercial nature for the personal use of a person travelling to Iran and contained in that person’s luggage, or

(c) necessary for the official purposes of a diplomatic mission or consular post in Iran, or of an international organisation enjoying immunities in accordance with international law.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—

“consular post” has the same meaning as in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations done at Vienna on 24 April 1963, and any reference to the functions of a consular post is to be read in accordance with that Convention;

“diplomatic mission”, and any reference to the functions of a diplomatic mission, is to be read in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations done at Vienna on 18 April 1961;

“goods of strategic concern” has the meaning given in regulation 36 (interpretation);

“relevant activity” means any activity which would, in the absence of this regulation, contravene the prohibitions specified in paragraph (1);

“technology of strategic concern” has the meaning given in regulation 36 (interpretation).

Ships: exceptions from prohibition on port entry

Exception for authorised conduct in a relevant country

Exception for acts done for purposes of national security or prevention of serious crime

Treasury licences

Director disqualification licences

Trade licences

Licences: general provisions

Finance: licensing offences

Director disqualification: licensing offences

Trade: licensing offences

Section 8B(1) to (3) of Immigration Act 1971: directions

Article 20 of the Export Control Order 2008

94A

Article 20 of the Export Control Order 2008 (embargoed destinations) is not to be taken to prohibit anything prohibited by Part 6 (Trade).

Trade: overlapping offences

Revocation of the Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations

Savings

Transitional provision: Treasury licences

Transitional provision: trade licences

Transitional provisions: prior obligations

Interpretation of Part 12

Finance: exception from prohibitions for required payments

55A

(1) This regulation applies to required payments within the meaning of paragraph (2).

(2) A required payment is a payment which—

(a) a designated person is required to make under or by virtue of any enactment to—

(i) the registrar of companies,

(ii) the Commissioners,

(iii) the Welsh Revenue Authority,

(iv) Revenue Scotland,

(v) the Financial Conduct Authority,

(vi) the Secretary of State,

(vii) the Welsh Ministers,

(viii) the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland, or

(ix) a local authority, and

(b) is not an excluded payment.

(3) The prohibitions in regulations 15 (asset-freeze in relation to designated persons) and 17 (making funds available for benefit of designated persons) are not contravened by a person making a required payment.

(4) Where a required payment is made by a person other than a designated person, the prohibition in regulation 15 is not contravened by the designated person making a reimbursement payment to that person.

(5) The reference in paragraph (3) to a person making a required payment includes a designated person, but only where they are making a required payment on their own behalf.

(6) The following payments are to be treated as payments which a designated person is required to make under or by virtue of an enactment for the purposes of this regulation, where made by a designated person on their own behalf or by a person, other than a designated person, on behalf of a designated person—

(a) a payment to the Financial Conduct Authority of a levy imposed by the scheme manager of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme by virtue of section 213 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the compensation scheme);

(b) a payment to the Financial Conduct Authority which is collected by that Authority on behalf of the Financial Reporting Council Limited.

(7) For the purposes of this regulation, references to a designated person are to be read as including a person who is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 9) by the designated person.

(8) In this regulation—

“BID levy” means a levy that is imposed on those persons who are, in respect of particular business improvement district proposals, entitled to vote in accordance with section 39(3) of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006;

“business improvement district” has the meaning given in section 33 of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006;

“designated person” has the same meaning as it has in Part 3 (Finance);

“enactment” has the meaning given in section 54(6) of the Act;

“excluded payment” means, in relation to—the registrar of companies, a payment of fees for—the incorporation of a firm;the restoration of a firm to a register which is administered by the registrar;the Financial Conduct Authority, a payment of fees for—an application for permission from, authorisation by, registration with or recognition from the Financial Conduct Authority which relates to the carrying on of any activity falling within any function of the Financial Conduct Authority;an application for a variation of such permission, authorisation, registration or recognition;an application for listing or for eligibility for listing;an application for review or approval of a document relating to listing;an application for approval as a sponsor or primary information provider;an application for review or approval of— a document under rules made by the Financial Conduct Authority by virtue of Part 3 of the Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024; listing particulars under section 79 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 or supplementary listing particulars under section 81 of that Act;the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers, a payment that a designated person is required to make under or by virtue of an enactment other than a payment under or by virtue of Part 3 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland, a payment that a designated person is required to make under or by virtue of an enactment other than a payment under or by virtue of Part 2 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;a local authority, a payment that a designated person is required to make under or by virtue of an enactment other than a payment under or by virtue of—Part 1 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975;Part 3 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;Parts 1 and 2 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;Part 4 of the Local Government Act 2003;Part 9 of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006;the Business Rate Supplements Act 2009;the Business Improvement Districts Act (Northern Ireland) 2013;

“firm” has the meaning given in section 1173(1) of the Companies Act 2006;

“listing” means being included in the official list maintained by the Financial Conduct Authority in accordance with Part 6 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

“local authority” means—in relation to England—a district council;a county council for any area for which there is no district council;a London borough council;the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority;the Council of the Isles of Scilly;in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough council;in relation to Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 or a person appointed by such a council for the purposes of the administration, collection and recovery of a BID levy;in relation to Northern Ireland, a district council;

“primary information provider” has the meaning given in section 89P(2) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

“registrar of companies” has the meaning given in section 1060 of the Companies Act 2006 (the registrar);

“reimbursement payment” means a repayment from the designated person to the person who made a required payment which is of the same amount as that required payment;

“scheme manager” has the meaning given in section 212 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

“sponsor” has the meaning given in section 88(2) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Trade: exception for emergencies in certain cases

Trade: exceptions in relation to personal effects etc.

Ships: exceptions from prohibition on port entry

Exception for authorised conduct in a relevant country

Exception for acts done for purposes of national security or prevention of serious crime

Treasury licences

Director disqualification licences

Trade licences

Licences: general provisions

Finance: licensing offences

Director disqualification: licensing offences

Trade: licensing offences

Section 8B(1) to (3) of Immigration Act 1971: directions

Finance: reporting obligations for required payments

68A

(1) A designated person must inform the Treasury without delay if they make a required payment.

(2) A person who makes a required payment on behalf of a designated person must inform the Treasury without delay that they have made the required payment.

(3) A person must inform the Treasury without delay if they receive a reimbursement payment.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, references to a designated person are to be read as including a person who is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 9) by the designated person.

(5) In this regulation—

“designated person” has the meaning given in regulation 55A(8) (finance: exception from prohibitions for required payments);

“reimbursement payment” has the meaning given in regulation 55A(8);

“required payment” has the meaning given in regulation 55A(2).

“Relevant firm”

Finance: powers to request information

Finance: production of documents

Finance: information offences

Trade: application of information powers in CEMA

General trade licences: records

General trade licences: inspection of records

Disclosure of information

Finance: disclosure to the Treasury

Part 9: supplementary

Judicial decisions etc

Insolvency

13

(1) To enable anything to be done in connection with—

(a) any insolvency and restructuring proceedings relating to an insolvent person,

(b) any other relevant proceedings relating to a person other than an individual, or

(c) proceedings under the insolvency law of a country other than the United Kingdom that correspond to the proceedings in paragraph (a) or (b),

provided that any payments made directly or indirectly to a designated person are credited to a frozen account.

(2) In this paragraph—

“enactment” has the meaning given in section 54(6) of the Act;

“insolvency and restructuring proceedings” includes—the regimes and proceedings set out in Parts A1 to 6 of the Insolvency Act 1986, Parts 1A to 7 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and so much of Part 1 of that Order as applies for the purposes of those Parts, but excluding—proceedings under Chapter 3 of Part 4 (members’ voluntary winding up) of the Insolvency Act 1986, andproceedings under Chapter 3 of Part 5 (members’ voluntary winding up) of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989;arrangements and reconstructions under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006;arrangements and reconstructions for companies in financial difficulty under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006;the proceedings and arrangements set out in the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016;

“insolvent person” means a person (“P”), other than an individual, where—P is unable to pay its debts as they fall due, orthe value of P’s assets is less than the amount of its liabilities, taking into account its contingent and prospective liabilities;

“other relevant proceedings” means—the regimes and proceedings set out in—sections 367 and 377A to 377J of, or Schedule 19C to, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;the Insurers (Reorganisation and Winding Up) (Lloyd’s) Regulations 2005;Parts 1 to 3 of the Banking Act 2009 (including Parts 2 and 3 as applied to building societies by section 90C of the Building Societies Act 1986);the Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011;Part 6 of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013;the Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021;Schedule 11 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023;proceedings under any other special administration regime;

“special administration regime” means provision made by an enactment for an insolvency procedure that—is similar or corresponds to the ordinary administration procedure provided for by Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 or Schedule B1 to the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, andprovides for the administrator to have one or more special objectives instead of or in addition to the objectives of ordinary administration.

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