EU Legislation
(Sanctions – Syria) (Jersey) Order 2014
1 Interpretation
In this Order –
“General Provisions Order” means the EU Legislation (Sanctions)
(General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2014;
“Regulation (EU) No 36/2012” means Council
Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 of 18 January 2012 concerning
restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria and repealing Regulation
(EU) No 442/2011 (OJ L 16, 19.1.2012, p. 1), as amended[3] up to 8th December 2016.[4]
2 Ambulatory
references to Annexes
A reference in Regulation
(EU) No 36/2012 to any of the Annexes to that Regulation is to be read as
a reference to that Annex as amended, substituted, extended or applied from
time to time by any other EU provision, or as that Annex otherwise has effect
in the EU from time to time by virtue of any judgment of the European Court.
3 Application of general provisions
(1) This Order is a
relevant special Order for the purpose of the General Provisions Order.
(2) Regulation (EU) No 36/2012
is the relevant EU provision for the purpose of the general provisions of the General
Provisions Order, when those provisions are read as part of this Order.
4 Implementation
of Regulation (EU) No 36/2012
(1) Regulation (EU) No 36/2012
has effect as if it were an enactment –
(a) to
any extent that Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 does not otherwise have effect
in Jersey;
(b) subject
to the modifications made by the general provisions that are to be read as part
of this Order by virtue of Article 3 and the General Provisions Order; and
(c) subject
to paragraph (2).
(2) Paragraph (1) does
not apply to any extent that it is inconsistent with or repugnant to any
provision of the Lebanon and Syria (United Nations Measures) (Channel Islands)
Order 2006, being a provision that has effect for the time being in Jersey.
5 Offences
(1) A person
who –
(a) contravenes
Article 2a, 2b(1), 2c(1), 3, 3a, 4, 5, 6, 7a, 8, 9, 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 12,
13, 14, 24, 25, 26, 26a or 27a of Regulation (EU) No 36/2012, as that
Article has effect in Jersey by virtue of Article 4;
(b) intentionally
furnishes false information or a false explanation to any person exercising
powers under Article 10 of the General Provisions Order as read as part of
this Order; or
(c) with
intent to evade the provisions of that Article, destroys, mutilates, defaces,
secretes or removes any document,
is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term
of 2 years and to a fine.[5]
(2) A person is guilty of
an offence, and liable to imprisonment for a term of 3 months and to
a fine, if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes –
(a) Article 10(3)
of the General Provisions Order as read as part of this Order; or
(b) Article 19(2)
or 29(1) of Regulation (EU) No 36/2012, as that Article has effect in
Jersey by virtue of Article 4.
(3) Paragraph (1)(a)
does not apply to a contravention –
(a) by
the Minister, of an obligation imposed on the Minister by Article 8 of the
General Provisions Order; or
(b) by a
person other than the Minister, of an obligation imposed on that person under
Article 9 of that Order.
6 Citation
This Order may be cited as
the EU Legislation (Sanctions – Syria) (Jersey) Order 2014.