Legal background Sanctions enforcement: monetary penalties
As part of the Government’s ongoing work to strengthen UK sanctions enforcement, the section will supplement the existing powers in section 17 of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act (SAMLA) by inserting a new section 17A.
	Section 17A will provide expressly that provision for enforcement made in sanctions regulations under section 1 of SAMLA may include powers for the imposition of civil monetary penalties (CMPs) in relation to the contravention of prohibitions or requirements imposed by sanctions regulations.
	The section strengthens the basis for CMPs to be imposed by HM Treasury under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (PCA) for offences that are supplemental to financial sanctions and that regulations made under section 1 SAMLA can include provision conferring power to impose CMPs. The section also provides for the PCA 2017 to be disapplied where HM Treasury has the power under both sanctions regulations and the PCA to impose CMPs in respect of prohibitions or requirements.
	The section will clarify the basis for wider use of CMPs as part of the Government’s efforts to crack down on contraventions of sanctions.