(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends with modifications the Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/618) ("the Regulations") as amended from time to time to all British overseas territories except Bermuda and Gibraltar (which implement sanctions under their own legislative arrangements).

Section 63(3)(c) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c.13) ("the Sanctions Act") provides that Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for any provision of Part 1 of that Act, or any regulations under Part 1 of that Act, to extend with or without modifications to any of the British overseas territories. Section 63(4) provides that this includes the power to extend any regulations as amended from time to time.

The Regulations were made under Part 1 of the Sanctions Act to establish a sanctions regime for the purpose of deterring the proliferation and use of chemical weapons, including encouraging the effective implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

The Regulations, as modified and extended to the British overseas territories listed in Schedule 1 by this Order ("the modified Regulations"), provide that a person designated by the Secretary of State for being, or having been, involved in the proliferation and use of chemical weapons’, is a designated person for the purposes of the modified Regulations. Designated persons may be excluded from the territory and may be made subject to financial sanctions, including having their funds or economic resources frozen.