Part 1: Sanctions regulations Chapter 1: Power to make sanctions regulations Section 17: Enforcement
This section makes provision for the enforcement of sanctions.
	Subsection (3) enables sanctions regulations to set out the powers and duties of any person who is to enforce the regulations.
	Subsections (4) and (5) enable sanctions regulations to create criminal offences, and set sentences of up to 10 years imprisonment following conviction on indictment.
	Subsection (6) enables regulations to apply, with or without modification, provisions of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 for the purposes of enforcement. Subsection (8) enables the regulations to specify that investigatory powers in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 can be used to investigate breaches of sanctions.
	Subsection (9) enables regulations to specify whether the civil monetary penalty regime in Part 8 of Policing and Crime Act 2017 applies where prohibitions are breached. That Act created powers to impose monetary penalties for financial sanctions offences and brings financial sanctions offences into the scope of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (under the Crime and Courts Act 2013) and Serious Crime Prevention Orders (under the Serious Crime Act 2007). Consequential amendments made in Schedule 3 preserve these powers for breaches of financial sanctions and bring other breaches of sanctions offences within the scope of Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Serious Crime Prevention Orders (as explained below in relation to Schedule 3). Provision under this subsection will clearly identify which sanctions are financial sanctions that, when breached, may attract a civil monetary penalty. The government does not intend to impose civil monetary penalties in respect of breaches of trade sanctions.