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Version date: 14 December 2020 - onwards
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Regulation 6 Designation criteria

(1) The Secretary of State may not designate a person under regulation 5 unless the Secretary of State -

(a) has reasonable grounds to suspect that that person is an involved person, and

(b) considers that the designation of that person is appropriate, having regard to -

(i) the purposes stated in regulation 4, and

(ii) the likely significant effects of the designation on that person (as they appear to the Secretary of State to be on the basis of the information that the Secretary of State has).

(2) In this regulation an "involved person" means a person who -

(a) is or has been involved in the violent repression in Guinea on 28th September 2009, or the aftermath of that violent repression;

(b) is owned or controlled directly or indirectly (within the meaning of regulation 7) by a person who is or has been so involved,

(c) is acting on behalf of or at the direction of a person who is or has been so involved, or

(d) is a member of, or associated with, a person who is or has been so involved.

(3) Any reference in this regulation to being involved in an activity set out in paragraph (2)(a) above means -