The Turkey (Sanctions) (Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean) (Overseas Territories) Order 2020
2020 No. 283
Overseas Territories
The Turkey (Sanctions) (Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean) (Overseas Territories) Order 2020
Made 11th March 2020
Laid before Parliament 18th March 2020
Coming into force 8th April 2020
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of March 2020
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 112 of the Saint Helena Act 18331, the British Settlements Acts 1887 and 19452, and in exercise of all the other powers enabling Her to do so, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order:
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Turkey (Sanctions) (Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean) (Overseas Territories) Order 2020.
(2) It comes into force on 8th April 2020.
(3) It extends to the territories listed in Schedule 1.
Application of the Order
2.—(1) This Order applies to—
(a)
(a) any person in the Territory,
(b)
(b) any person elsewhere who is—
(i) a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, a British National (Overseas) or a British protected person and is ordinarily resident in the Territory, or
(ii) a body incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the Territory, and
(c)
(c) any person on board a ship or aircraft that is registered in the Territory.
(2) Article 14 applies to the Falkland Islands, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus with the modifications specified in Schedule 2.
(3) In the application of this Order to any territory listed in Schedule 1, the expression “the Territory” in this Order means that territory.
Interpretation
3.—(1) In this Order—
“aircraft” has the same meaning as it has in section 6(9) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 20183;
“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1890 of 11th November 2019 concerning restrictive measures in view of Turkey’s unauthorised drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean4;
“designated person” means any person listed in Annex I to the Council Regulation;
“document” includes information recorded in any form, and in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, references to its production include references to producing a copy of the information in legible form;
“economic resources” means assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are not funds, but may be used to obtain funds, goods or services;
“frozen account” means an account with a relevant institution which is held or controlled (directly or indirectly) by a designated person;
“funds” means financial assets and benefits of every kind, including—
(a) cash, cheques, claims on money, drafts, money orders and other payment instruments,
(b) deposits with relevant institutions or other entities, balances on accounts, debts and debt obligations,
(c) publicly and privately traded securities and debt instruments, including stocks and shares, certificates representing securities, bonds, notes, warrants, debentures and derivatives contracts,
(d) interest, dividends or other income on or value accruing from or generated by assets,
(e) credit, rights of set-off, guarantees, performance bonds or other financial commitments,
(f) letters of credit, bills of lading and bills of sale,
(g) documents showing evidence of an interest in funds or financial resources, and
(h) any other instrument of export financing;
“goods” includes items, materials and equipment;
“Governor” means the Governor or other officer administering the Government of the Territory;
“insurance” means an undertaking or commitment where a person is obliged, in return for a payment, to provide another person, in the event of materialisation of a risk, with an indemnity or a benefit as determined by the undertaking or commitment;
“officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who has purported to act in any such capacity;
“relevant institution” means—
(a) any person who may lawfully accept deposits in or from within the Territory by way of business, or
(b) any society established lawfully in the Territory whose principal purpose is the making of loans secured on residential property where such loans are funded substantially by its members;
“ship” has the same meaning as it has in section 7(14) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018;
“the Territory” has the meaning given in article 2(3);
“transfer”, in relation to funds, means—
(a) any transaction carried out on behalf of a payer through a payment service provider by electronic means, with a view to making funds available to a payee at a payment service provider, regardless of whether the payer and the payee are the same person, or
(b) any transaction by non-electronic means such as in cash, cheques or accountancy orders, with a view to making funds available to a payee regardless of whether the payer and payee are the same person;
“vehicle” means land transport vehicle.
(2) For the purpose of the definition of “relevant institution” in paragraph (1)—
(a)
(a) the activity of accepting deposits has the meaning given by section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 20005, taken with Schedule 2 to that Act6and any order under section 22 of that Act7, and
(b)
(b) a person is not regarded as accepting deposits by way of business if—
(i) the person does not hold himself or herself out as accepting deposits on a day to day basis, and
(ii) any deposits which the person accepts are accepted only on particular occasions, whether or not involving the issue of any securities.
(3) In determining for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b)(ii) whether deposits are accepted only on particular occasions, regard is to be had to the frequency of those occasions and to any characteristics distinguishing them from each other.
(4) A reference in this Order to any enactment (including legislation of the European Union) or statutory instrument is to be construed as a reference to that enactment or instrument as amended from time to time.
PART 1
Freezing of funds etc.
Dealing with funds and economic resources
4.—(1) It is an offence for a person (“P”), including the designated person, to deal with funds or economic resources belonging to, or owned, held or controlled by, a designated person if P knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that P is dealing with such funds or economic resources.
(2) In paragraph (1), “deal with” means—
(a)
(a) in relation to funds—
(i) use, alter, move, allow access to or transfer,
(ii) deal with the funds in any other way that would result in a change in volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character or destination, or
(iii) make any other change that would enable use, including portfolio management, and
(b)
(b) in relation to economic resources, use to obtain funds, goods or services in any way, including by selling, hiring or mortgaging the resources.
(3) It is an offence for a person (“P”) to make funds or economic resources available (directly or indirectly) to a designated person if P knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that—
(a)
(a) P is making the funds or economic resources so available, and
(b)
(b) in the case of economic resources, the designated person would be likely to exchange them, or use them in exchange, for funds, goods or services.
(4) It is an offence for a person (“P”) to make funds or economic resources available (directly or indirectly) to any person for the benefit of a designated person if P knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that P is making the funds or economic resources so available.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)—
(a)
(a) funds or economic resources are made available for the benefit of a designated person only if that person obtains, or is able to obtain, a significant financial benefit from the funds or economic resources, and
(b)
(b) “financial benefit” includes the discharge of a financial obligation for which the designated person is wholly or partly responsible.
(6) No liability arises for any person concerned in the freezing of funds or economic resources in accordance with this article unless it is proved that the funds or economic resources were frozen or withheld as a result of negligence.
(7) This article is subject to articles 5, 7 and 8.
Credits to a frozen account
5.—(1) Nothing in article 4 prevents a person from crediting a frozen account with—
(a)
(a) interest or other earnings due on the account,
(b)
(b) payments due under contracts, agreements or obligations that were concluded or arose before the account became a frozen account, or
(c)
(c) payments due under judicial, administrative or arbitral decisions rendered in the Territory or enforceable in the Territory.
(2) Nothing in article 4 prevents a relevant institution from crediting a frozen account where it receives funds transferred to the account.
Information relating to funds etc.
6.—(1) The Governor must take such steps as the Governor considers appropriate to cooperate with any international investigation relating to the funds, economic resources or financial transactions of—
(a)
(a) a designated person,
(b)
(b) a person owned or controlled by a designated person, or
(c)
(c) a person acting on behalf of, or at the direction of, a designated person.
(2) A relevant institution or relevant business or profession must inform the Governor as soon as practicable if it knows or suspects that a...
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