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Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2019

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A decision made on 11 December 2019

MINISTERIAL DECISION REFERENCE:    MD-ER-2019-0066

DECISION SUMMARY TITLE:     Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2019

DECISION SUMMARY AUTHOR:

Head of International Compliance

IS THE DECISION SUMMARY PUBLIC OR EXEMPT?  

Public

REPORT TITLE:     Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2019

REPORT AUTHOR OR NAME OF PERSON GIVING REPORT: 

Senior Legislative Drafter

IS THE REPORT PUBLIC OR EXEMPT? 

Public

DECISION AND REASON FOR THE DECISION:

The Minister for External Relations, in pursuance of Article 5 of the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019 (the “Law”), made the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2019 (the "Order").

 

This Order repeals and replaces the EU Legislation (Sanctions) (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2014 (the “repealed Order”), adapting its provisions to the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019 (the “Law”). It will enable new EU sanctions regimes to be implemented by Orders made under the Law, such as the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Nicaragua) (Jersey) Order 2019 and the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Turkey) (Jersey) Order 2019.

 

It also preserves the information provisions of the repealed Order, to apply to existing sanctions regimes implemented by Orders that are preserved by Article 48 of the Law.

 

It applies the general provisions to all Orders made under Article 3(1) of the Law (and to existing EU sanctions regimes implemented by Orders preserved by Article 48), unless those Orders provide otherwise. It also provides that references in the Law to compliance, evasion, offences and functions apply in relation to the implemented EU sanctions provisions as they do in relation to the Law and to Orders under the Law.

RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS:    There are no resource implications arising from this legislation.

ACTION REQUIRED:  External Relations shall –

(1) inform the Assistant Greffier of the States and the States Greffe Publications Editor immediately the Order is made, and request the Greffier of the States to arrange for the making of the Order to be notified to the States;

(2) deliver the signed and sealed order to the Publications Editor.

SIGNATURE:

 

 

SENATOR IAN GORST

POSITION:

 

 

MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS

 

 

DATE SIGNED

EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE DECISION

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