S.I. No. 36/2017 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 (Section 42) (Restrictive Measures concerning Certain Persons and Entities with a view to Combating Terrorism) Regulations 2017.

1. Commission Regulation (EC) No. 745/2003 of 28 April 2003

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2. Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded

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3. Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1207/2005 of 27 July 2005

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4. Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1957/2005 of 29 November 2005

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5. Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1461/2006 of 29 September 2006

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6. Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1791/2006 of 20 November 2006

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7. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 1250/2012 of 20 December 2012

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8. Council Regulation (EU) No. 517/2013 of 13 May 2013

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9. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 646/2013 of 4 July 2013

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10. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 2015/2425 of 21 December 2015

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11. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 2016/620 of 21 April 2016

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12. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 2016/1127 of 12 July 2016

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13. Council Regulation (EU) No. 2016/1710 of 27 September 2016

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14. Council Regulations (EU) No. 2016/2373 of 22 December 2016

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

31 January 2017.

MICHAEL NOONAN,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations provide for the enforcement of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2580/2001 of 27 December 2001, as amended.

Section 42

of the

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005

creates an offence for breach of the provisions of these Regulations, provides for appropriate penalties and empowers the Minister for Finance to make regulations providing for such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary.

The Regulations revoke previous domestic instruments created under

Section 42

of the

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005

in relation to Council Regulation (EC) No. 2580/2001 of 27 December 2001, as amended.

1 OJ No.L344, 28.12.2001, p.70

2 OJ No. L 106, 29.4.2003, p. 22

3 OJ No. L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33

4 OJ No. L 197, 28.7.2005, p. 16

5 OJ No. L 314, 30.11.2005, p. 16

6 OJ No. L 272, 3.10.2006, p. 11

7 OJ No. L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1

8 OJ No. L 352, 21.12.2012, p. 40

9 OJ No. L 158, 10.6.2013, p. 1

10 OJ No. L 187, 6.7.2013, p. 4

11 OJ No. L 334, 22.12.2015, p. 1

12 OJ No. L106, 22.4.2016, p. 1

13 OJ No. L 188, 13.7.2016, p. 1

14 OJ No. L 259, 27.9.2016, p. 1

15 OJ No. L 352, 23.12.2016, p. 31

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

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th February

, 2017.

WHEREAS the Council Regulation No. 2580/2001 was adopted by the Council on 27 December 2001; and

WHEREAS I, MICHAEL NOONAN, Minister for Finance am of the opinion that the said Council Regulation is for the purpose of, or will contribute to, combating terrorism through the adoption of specific restrictive measures, directed at persons, groups or entities, for the identification, detection, freezing or seizure of their assets of any kind;

NOW I, MICHAEL NOONAN, Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsections (2) and (6) of

section 42

of the

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005

(No. 2 of 2005), and for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation No. 2580/2001 of 27 December 2001

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, hereby make the following regulations