Part 1: Sanctions regulations Chapter 5: Miscellaneous Section 42: Suspension of prohibitions and requirements
This section allows sanctions regulations, or specific restrictions within sanctions regulations, to be suspended for a period of time, during which they would remain on the statue book but not be binding within the UK. This allows flexibility in circumstances where sanctions might need to be temporarily lifted or altered, but where it might not be appropriate to revoke sanctions regulations completely. For example, if a state which was subject to sanctions had altered its behaviour and this warranted the sanctions being suspended to reward that behaviour, or in order to take agreed steps so that they could be lifted, an appropriate Minister could suspend the regulations but still retain the ability, should the state in question revert to its previous behaviour or fail to meet a specified condition, to apply the regulations again quickly.