(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Sanctions (Humanitarian Exception) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (“the Regulations”) are made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c. 13) (“the Sanctions Act”).

The Regulations amend a number of sanctions regulations which have been made under section 1 of the Sanctions Act, namely:

- the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/411);

- the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/433);

- the South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/438);

- the Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/461);

- the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/466);

- the Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/616);

- the Lebanon (Sanctions) (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/617);

- the Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/642);