Sanctions
and Asset-Freezing (UK Human Rights Designations) (Jersey) Order 2020[1]
Official
Consolidated Version
This is an official version of consolidated legislation compiled and
issued under the authority of the Legislation (Jersey) Law 2021.
Showing the law from 7 July 2020 to 11 February 2021
Sanctions
and Asset-Freezing (UK Human Rights Designations) (Jersey) Order 2020
1 Interpretation
In this Order –
“Law” means the Sanctions and
Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019;
“UK Regulations” means the
Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 of the UK (S.I. 2020/680),
as amended from time to time.
2 Designation of persons designated by UK on human rights
grounds
A person is a designated
person for the purpose of Part 3 of the Law if the person is, for the time
being, designated under regulation 5 of the UK Regulations for the
purposes of regulations 11 to 15 of those Regulations.
3 Licences
In considering whether to
grant, vary or revoke a licence under Article 16 of the Law the Minister
must have regard to whether, if the UK Regulations applied to the acts for
which the licence is sought or was granted (the “relevant acts”) –
(a) the UK Regulations would
permit the grant of a special licence, being a licence authorising acts by a
particular person, to authorise the relevant acts;
(b) a general licence, that has
been granted under the UK Regulations and remains in effect, would authorise
the relevant acts; or
(c) by virtue of an exception
to a prohibition against the relevant acts under the UK Regulations, no licence
would be required by those Regulations for the relevant acts.
4 Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited
as the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (UK Human Rights Designations) (Jersey)
Order 2020 and comes into force on the day after it is made.