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Mr Avidgwood
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PROPOSED SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
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I am taking your minute of 8 ay as an invitation to the Foreign Office to say whether and to what extent the sanctions orders
should extend to the dependencies and colonies. My working assumption will be that the principal order should extend to the United Kingdom only.
I also take your minute to say that the principal order should apply only to British ships registered in the United Kingdom and ships chartered to UK nationals. But it should not apply to UK owned ships under foreign flag which are not operated by
the UK owner. UK owners who do operate seem to fall in the
same category as UK charterers.
Is this assumption correct?
On extraterritorial sanctions, you will see that the Bill enables orders to provide that certain persons connected with the United
Kingdom may be made guilty of offences for acts or omissions commited outside the territory. Just because we have the powers of course does not mean that they must be used and the extent to
which the orders should create extraterritorial offences must have
regard to the attitude taken by our Community partners. Doubts have been voiced in Brussels by some ember States about the
justification for extraterritorial penalties but I am not sure that these doubts have extended to offences commited by persons in control of ships of their registry. It would be very odd I think if we prohibited UK registered ships from trading with Iran and failed to provide penalties if the prohibition was violated. Indeed without a penalty I doubt whether it would be appropriate to impose a prohibition at all. In paragraph 5 of your minute you
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