United Nations Sanctions (Sierra Leone) Regulations, 1998

L.N.I64 of 1998

UNITED NAnONS (SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS)

ACT, 1993

(ACT NO. xx OF 1993)

United Nations Sanctions (Sierra Leone) Regulations, 1998

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the. United

Nations (Security Council Sanctions) Act, 1993, the Prime Minister

has made the following regulations:-

These regulations may be cited as the United Nations Sanctions Ciwion.

(Sierra Leone) Regulations, 1998.

(Regulation 3)

RESOLUTION 1171 (1998)

Adopted by the Security ConneD at its 3889th meeting on 5 June 1998

The Security Council,

Readling its resolutions 1132 (1997) of 8 October 1997, 11~6 (1998) of 16 March

1998 and 1162 (1998) of 17 April 1998 and the statements of its President of26 February

1998 (SIPRST/1998/5) and 20 May 1998 (SfPRSTIl998/13),

Welcoming the efforts of the Government of Sierra Leone to restore peaceful

and secure conditions in the country, to re-establish effecti ve administration and the

democratic process, and to promote national reconciliation,

Deploring the continued resistance to the authority ofthe legitimate Government

of Sierra Leone and stressing the urgency for all rebels to put an end to the atrocities,

cease their resistance and lay down their arms,

Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,

1. Decides to tenninate the remaining prohibitions imposed by paragraphs 5

and 6 of resolution 1132 (1997);

2. Further decides, with a view to prohibiting the sale and supply of arms and

related materiel to non-governmental forces in Sierra Leone, that all States shall prevent

the sale or supply, by their nationals or from their territories, or using their flag vessels

or aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and anununition,

military vehicles and equipment and spare parts for the aforementioned, to Sierra Leone

other than to the Government of Sierra Leone through named points of entry on a list

to be supplied by that Government to the Secretary-General, who shall promptly notify

all Member States of the United Nations of the list;

3. Decides also that the restriction referred to in paragraph 2 above shall not

apply to the sale or supply of arms and related materiel for the sole use in Sierra Leone

of the Military Observer Group of the Economic Community of West African States

(ECOMOG) or the United Nations;

4. Further decides that States shall notify all exports from their territories of

arms or related materiel to Sierra Leone to the Committee established by resolution

1132 (1997), that the Government of Sierra Leone shall mark, register and notify to the

Comminee all imports made by it of arms and related materiel, and that the Committee

shall report regularly to the Council on notifications so received;

5. Decides that all States shall prevent the entry into or transit through their

territories of leading members of the former military junta and of the Revolutionary

United Front (RUF), as designated by the Committee established by resolu~on 1132

(1997), provided that the entry into or transit through a particular State of any such

person may be authorized by the same Committee, and provided that nothing in this

paragraph shall oblige a State to refuse entry to its territory to its own nationals;

6. Decides that the Committee established by resolution 1132 (1997) shall

continue to undertake the tasks referred to in paragraph 10 (a), (b), (c), (d), (f) and (h)

of that resolution in relating to paragraphs 2 and 5 above;

7. Expresses its readiness to tenninate the measures referred to in paragraphs

2,4 and 5 above once the control of the Government of Sierra Leone has been fully re-

established over all its territory. and when all non-government forces have been disarmed

and demobilized;

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

Interpretation.

"Act" means the United Nations (Security Council Sanctions)

Act, 1993;

"ECOWAS" means the Economic Community of West

African States;

"weapons" means arms proper as defined in subsection (1)

of section 64 of the Criminal Code and includes every component Cap. 9.

part thereof and any accessory thereto.

For the purpose of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Act, Text of Resolution.

Security Council Resolution 1171 (1998) is published in the English

Language in the Schedule to these regulations.

(1) Notwithstanding any other law. and subject to paragraph Prohibition of the

(2) of this regulation, the sale or supply, in any manner whatsoever, by :~~~ ~n~eapons

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of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and

ammunition, military vehicles and equipment. paramilitary equipment

and spare parts thereof, to non-governmental forces in Sierra Leone

other than to the Government of Sierra Leone, is prohibited.

(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) of this regulation shall

not apply to weapons and military equipment destined for the sole use

of the Military Observer Group ofECOWAS (ECOMOG) or the United

Nations in Sierra Leone.

S. The entry into, or transit through, Malta of leading members

of the former military junta and of the Revolutionary United Front (R UP)

of Sierra Leone shall be prevented.

M'ghandhomx gewwa Malta jithallew jidhlu jew jieqfu

temporanjament membri ewlenin ta' dik Ii kienet il-gunta rnilitari u tar-

Revolutionary United Front (RUF) ta' Sierra Leone.

Any person found guilty of an offence against these regulations

shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding fifty

thousand Maltese liri.

The United Nations Sanctions (Sierra Leone) Regulations,

1997 are hereby revoked.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council within 3 months of

the date of adoption of this resolution, and again within 6 months, regarding, in

particular, the export of arms and related materiel referred to in paragraph 2 above,

and on progress made towards the objectives referred to in paragraph 7 above;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.