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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 15 December 2023 - 14 May 2025
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Regulation 59A Exceptions relating to processing payments

(1) The prohibition in regulation 17A(2) (processing payments) does not apply to the processing of a payment for any fee or charge required to permit an aircraft to overfly, land in or take off from Russia.

(2) The prohibition in regulation 17A(2) is not contravened by a transfer (or, if necessary, more than one transfer) of funds by C from account A to account B where-

(a) neither account A nor account B are held in the name of a customer of C; and

(b) both account A and account B are held within the United Kingdom; and

(c) the transfer (or transfers) from account A to account B is (or are) carried out for the purpose of compliance with regulation 17A(2).