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Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 201-

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A decision made on 3 June 2019:

MINISTERIAL DECISION REFERENCE:    MD-ER-2019-0032

DECISION SUMMARY TITLE:   Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 201-

DECISION SUMMARY AUTHOR:

Head of International Compliance

IS THE DECISION SUMMARY PUBLIC OR EXEMPT?  (if exempt state clause from Code of Practice booklet and from 1st January 2015 stating the relevant article/paragraph of the Freedom of Information Law/Regulations)

Public

REPORT TITLE:    Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 201-

REPORT AUTHOR OR NAME OF PERSON GIVING REPORT:  (if different from Decision  Summary Author)

Head of International Compliance

 

IS THE REPORT PUBLIC OR EXEMPT?  (if exempt state clause from Code of Practice booklet and from 1st January 2015 stating the relevant article/paragraph of the Freedom of Information Law/Regulations)

Public

DECISION AND REASON FOR THE DECISION: The Minister for External Relations approved for lodging “au Greffe” the  Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 201- (the “Amendment”).

Article 3(4)(c) of the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019 (“SAFL”) contains a cross-reference to Article 28 that would restrict its use to asset-freeze designations made by the UK or EU that had also been mandated by the United Nations (“UN”). Any other designations made by the UK or the EU, that were not required by the UN, would have to be provided for in the relevant sanctions Order by reference to Articles 3(1) and 3(4)(e).

The Amendment would remove the inappropriate reference at Article 3(4)(c) to Article 28, and would also introduce Article 3(6), which sets out the purposes referred to in Article 3(4)(c). These changes would ensure that all those who are made subject to an asset-freeze by the EU or UK can be designated for the asset-freeze imposed by Part 3 of SAFL by reference to Article 3(4)(c), regardless of whether the UN does or does not require an asset-freeze.

RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS:  There are no manpower or financial resource implications arising from the  Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 201-

ACTION REQUIRED:  The Greffier of the States is requested to arrange to lodge “au Greffe” the  Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 201- with a view to the Amendment being debated at the earliest possible date.

SIGNATURE:

 

 

SENATOR IAN GORST

POSITION:

 

 

MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS

 

 

DATE SIGNED

EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE DECISION

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