The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions (Overseas Territories) Order 2025

Made: 15th October 2025

Coming into force: 16th October 2025

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of October 2025Present,The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

His Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 63(3)(c) and (4) of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions (Overseas Territories) Order 2025 and comes into force on 16th October 2025.

• (2) This Order extends to each British overseas territory listed in Schedule 1.

Extension of the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025

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The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025[^f00002] as amended from time to time extend to each British overseas territory listed in Schedule 1 with the modifications specified in Schedule 2.

Extension of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018

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Subject to the modification set out in paragraph (c), the following provisions of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 extend to each British overseas territory listed in Schedule 1 for the purposes of the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Regulations 2025 as modified and extended to the territories by this Order—

• (a) section 44 (protection for acts done for purposes of compliance);

• (b) section 52(3) (Crown application);

• (c) section 53 (saving for prerogative powers), except that, in its application to a particular British overseas territory, the reference in subsection (1) of that section to the United Kingdom is to be read as a reference to that territory.

Schedule 1 — British overseas territories

• Anguilla

• British Antarctic Territory

• British Indian Ocean Territory

• Cayman Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Montserrat

• Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

• St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus

• Turks and Caicos Islands

• Virgin Islands

Schedule 2 — Modifications to be made in the extension of the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025 to each British overseas territory listed in Schedule 1

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In the Table of Contents—

• (a) in Part 1 (General)—

• (i) in the entry for regulation 1, omit “, commencement and extent”;

• (ii) in the entry for regulation 3, for “United Kingdom” substitute “Territory”;

• (iii) in the appropriate place, insert the following entry—

(4A) Functions of the Governor

• (b) in Part 2 (Designation of persons)—

• (i) omit the entry for—

• (aa) regulation 5;

• (bb) regulation 6;

• (cc) regulation 7;

• (dd) regulation 8;

• (ii) in the entry for regulation 10, for “Notification and publicity where power to designate by name is used” substitute “Requirement to publish a list of persons designated by name”;

• (iii) in the entry for regulation 11, for “Notification and publicity where power to designate by description is used” substitute “Requirement to publish a list of designations by description”;

• (iv) in the entry for regulation 12, omit “where designation power used”;

• (c) in Part 6 (exceptions and licences)—

• (i) in the entry for regulation 24, for “Finance: exception for authorised conduct in a relevant country” substitute “Finance: exceptions for authorised conduct outside the Territory”;

• (ii) in the entry for regulation 26, for “Treasury licences” substitute “Financial sanctions licences”;

• (iii) in the entry for regulation 32, for “Section 8B(1) to (3) of the Immigration Act 1971: directions” substitute “Immigration directions”;

• (d) in Part 7 (information and records) in the entry for regulation 40, for “Finance: disclosure to the Treasury” substitute “Finance: disclosure to the Governor”;

• (e) in Part 8 (enforcement)—

• (i) in the appropriate places, insert the following entries—

(41A) Search warrants

(44A) Consent to prosecutions

• (ii) omit the entry for regulation 47;

• (f) in the entry for Schedule 2, for “Treasury licences” substitute “Financial sanctions licences”.

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In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and extent)—

• (a) in the heading, omit “, commencement and extent”;

• (b) omit paragraphs (2) and (3).

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In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

• (a) the existing text becomes paragraph (1);

• (b) in that paragraph—

• (i) in the appropriate places, insert the following definitions—

• “authorised officer” means, in relation to the Territory—a member of His Majesty’s forces in the Territory,a police or customs officer of the Territory,a person authorised by the Governor for the purposes of exercising, whether generally or in a particular case, any power conferred by—regulation 36 (finance: powers to request information),regulation 37 (finance: production of documents),regulation 39 (disclosure of information), ... regulation 40 (finance: disclosure to the Governor), or regulation 41A (search warrants), orany person acting under the authority of a person falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (c);

• “financial sanctions licence” means, in relation to the Territory, a licence issued by the Governor under regulation 26(1);

• “the Governor” is to be read in accordance with regulation 4A;

• “His Majesty’s forces” does not include a force of any country, other than the United Kingdom, that is a member of the Commonwealth.

• (ii) omit the definitions of “Treasury licence” and “United Kingdom person”;

• (c) after that paragraph insert—

(2) In the application of these Regulations to a particular British overseas territory, the expression “the Territory” means that territory.

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In regulation 3 (Application of prohibitions and requirements outside the United Kingdom)—

• (a) in the heading, for “United Kingdom” substitute “Territory”;

• (b) in paragraphs (1) and (4), for “United Kingdom person” substitute “Territory person”;

• (c) in paragraphs (1), (4) and (7), for “United Kingdom” substitute “Territory”;

• (d) in paragraphs (2) and (5), after “in the territorial sea” insert “of the Territory”;

• (e) in paragraphs (3)(c) and (6)(b), for “Treasury licence” substitute “financial sanctions licence”;

• (f) at the end, insert—

(8) In this regulation— - “territorial sea of the Territory” means the territorial sea as defined in an enactment applicable in the Territory or, in the absence of such an enactment, the territorial sea adjacent to the Territory; - “Territory person” means, in relation to the Territory, a person who is—an individual ordinarily resident in the Territory who is—a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen,a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981[^f00003] is a British subject, ora British protected person within the meaning of that Act, ora body incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the Territory.

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At the end of Part 1 (General), insert—

(4A) (1) In these Regulations, “the Governor” means, in relation to the Territory, the person holding or acting in the office of Governor of the Territory, or, if there is no such office, the officer for the time being administering the Territory. (2) The Governor may, to such extent and subject to such restrictions and conditions as the Governor thinks proper, delegate or authorise the delegation of any of the Governor’s powers under these Regulations to any person, or class or description of persons, and any references in these Regulations to the Governor are to be construed accordingly. (3) In the exercise of any power conferred on the Governor by these Regulations, the Governor is to act in their discretion.

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Omit the following regulations (including the headings)—

• (a) regulation 5 (power to designate persons);

• (b) regulation 6 (conditions for the designation of persons by name);

• (c) regulation 7 (conditions for the designation of persons by description);

• (d) regulation 8 (designation conditions: meaning of “involved person”).

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For regulation 10 (notification and publicity where power to designate by name is used), substitute—

(10) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Governor must— (a) publish a list of designated persons, and (b) keep the list up to date. (2) Where, in accordance with regulation 10 (notification and publicity where power to designate by name is used) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) the Secretary of State is not required to publicise generally a designation, variation or revocation, the Governor must not include in the list under paragraph (1) any details of that designation, variation or revocation. (3) The Governor may publish the list under paragraph (1) in any form the Governor considers appropriate, including by means of a website. (4) For the purpose of this regulation, “designated person” means any person for the time being designated by name by the Secretary of State under regulation 5(1) (power to designate persons by name) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom).

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For regulation 11 (notification and publicity where power to designate by description is used), substitute—

(11) (1) Subject to paragraph (2) the Governor must— (a) publish a list of designations by description, and (b) keep the list up to date. (2) Where, in accordance with regulation 11 (notification and publicity where power to designate by description is used) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) the Secretary of State is not required to publicise generally a designation, variation or revocation, the Governor must not include in the list under paragraph (1) any details of that designation, variation or revocation. (3) The Governor may publish the list under paragraph (1) in any form the Governor considers appropriate, including by means of a website. (4) For the purposes of this regulation, “designations by description” means designations where the Secretary of State has for the time being provided that persons of a specified description are designated persons under regulation 5(2) (power to designate persons by description) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom).

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In regulation 12 (confidential information in certain cases where designation power used)—

• (a) in the heading, omit “where designation power used”;

• (b) omit paragraph (1);

• (c) in paragraph (2)(a), for “that is to be treated as confidential in accordance with paragraph (1)” substitute “which the Secretary of State has specified is to be treated as confidential under regulation 12(1) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom)”;

• (d) in paragraph (7)—

• (i) for “High Court (in Scotland, the Court of Session)” substitute “Supreme Court of the Territory”;

• (ii) omit “(in Scotland, an interdict)”;

• (e) at the end, insert—

(9) In this regulation, “Supreme Court of the Territory” means— (a) in relation to Anguilla, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands, the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court; (b) in relation to the Cayman Islands, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands; (c) in relation to the British Antarctic Territory, the British Indian Ocean Territory, the Falkland Islands, Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Supreme Court of that territory; (d) in relation to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus, the Senior Judges’ Court of those Areas.

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For regulation 13 (meaning of “designated person” in Part 3) substitute—

(13) In this Part, a “designated person” means a person who is designated from time to time by the Secretary of State under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) for the purposes of regulations 14 to 18 (asset-freeze etc.) (as they have effect in the United Kingdom).

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For regulation 21 (immigration sanctions) substitute—

(21) (1) A person who is designated from time to time by the Secretary of State under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) for the purposes of regulation 21 (immigration sanctions) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) must not enter, transit or remain in the Territory. (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who— (a) belongs to the Territory, or (b) in respect of the Sovereign Base Areas, is permitted to reside in the Sovereign Base Areas under the law applicable to the Sovereign Base Areas. (3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person if the application of that paragraph to that person would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under — (a) the European Convention on Human Rights, or (b) the Refugee Convention. (4) Paragraph (1) is subject to regulation 32 (immigration directions). (5) For the purposes of this regulation, a person (“P”) belongs to the Territory if— (a) in respect of Anguilla, P is an Anguillian (within the meaning given to that term in the law of Anguilla); (b) in respect of the Cayman Islands, P is a Caymanian (within the meaning given to that term in the law of the Cayman Islands); (c) in respect of the Falkland Islands, P has Falkland Islands status (within the meaning given to that term in the law of the Falkland Islands); (d) in respect of Montserrat, P is a Montserratian (within the meaning given to that term in the law of Montserrat); (e) in respect of Pitcairn, P has the right of abode in Pitcairn under the law of Pitcairn; (f) in respect of St Helena, P has St Helenian status (within the meaning given to that term in the law of St Helena); (g) in respect of Tristan da Cunha, P has the right of abode in Tristan da Cunha under the law of Tristan da Cunha; (h) in respect of the Turks and Caicos Islands, P is a Turks and Caicos Islander (within the meaning given to that term in the law of the Turks and Caicos Islands); (i) in respect of the Virgin Islands, P belongs to the Virgin Islands (within the meaning given to that term in the law of the Virgin Islands). (6) In this regulation— - “the European Convention on Human Rights” means the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms done at Rome on 4 November 1950 and the Protocols to the Convention[^f00004]; - “the Refugee Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28 July 1951 and the Protocol to the Convention[^f00005]; - “Pitcairn” means Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands; - “the Sovereign Base Areas” means the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus.

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In regulation 22 (finance: exceptions from prohibitions)—

• (a) omit paragraph (6);

• (b) in paragraph (7), for the definition of “relevant institution” substitute—

• “relevant institution”, in relation to the Territory, means a person domiciled in the Territory who would satisfy the threshold conditions for permission under Part 4A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000[^f00006] if it had its registered office (or if it does not have one, its head office) in the United Kingdom.

• (c) omit paragraph (8).

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For regulation 24 (finance: exception for authorised conduct in a relevant country) substitute—

(24) (1) Where a person’s conduct outside the Territory would, in the absence of this paragraph, contravene a prohibition in any of regulations 14 to 18 (asset-freeze etc.), the prohibition is not contravened if the conduct is authorised by a licence issued under regulation 26 (Treasury licences) (as it has effect in the United Kingdom). (2) Where a person’s conduct in a relevant country would, in the absence of this paragraph, contravene a prohibition in any of regulations 14 to 18 (“the relevant prohibition”), the relevant prohibition is not contravened if the conduct is authorised by a licence or other authorisation which is issued— (a) under the law of the relevant country, and (b) for the purpose of disapplying a prohibition in that jurisdiction which corresponds to the relevant prohibition. (3) In this regulation, “relevant country” means— (a) any of the Channel Islands; (b) the Isle of Man; (c) any British overseas territory other than the Territory.

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For regulation 25 (exception for acts done for purposes of national security or prevention of serious crime), substitute—