(1) This section applies where -
(a) a provision of retained EU sanctions law relates to persons named in any Annex, instrument or other document, or
(b) a provision of an instrument made by the Council of the European Union (however expressed) requires or recommends that persons named, or of a description specified, in that instrument or any other document must not or should not be admitted to the United Kingdom (see section 8B of the Immigration Act 1971).
(2) An Annex, instrument or other document mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) is an "EU sanctions list" for the purposes of this section.
(3) An appropriate Minister may, in respect of any EU sanctions list -
(a) direct that a person's name is to be treated as added to the list with effect from a date specified in the direction, or
(b) direct that a person's name is to be treated as removed from the list with effect from a date specified in the direction.
(4) The giving of a direction under paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (3)
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