Part 3 - Sanctions Chapter 2 – Imposition of Sanctions Section 58: Urgent designation of persons by name
Section 58 amends section 11 of the Sanctions Act, to make new provision about the restrictions on the power of an appropriate Minister to designate a person by name. These restrictions must be included in any regulations made under section 1 of the Sanctions Act which authorise the Minister to designate persons by name.
	Under section 11 as amended, such regulations must provide for a new urgent procedure for making designations. They will no longer need to provide that a Minister can designate a person only where the Minister considers that such a designation is appropriate, having regard to the purpose of the relevant sanctions regulations and to the likely significant effects of designation on the person (the "appropriateness test").
	To designate under the standard procedure, the Minister must have reasonable grounds to suspect that the person is involved in, or connected to, an activity set out in the regulations for a particular sanctions regime ("an involved person").
	The urgent procedure for making designations may be used where the Minister considers that it is in the public interest to do so. Under the urgent procedure, a Minister may designate a person where he or she does not consider that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the person is an involved person, but where that person has been designated under corresponding provision of the law of the United States of America, the European Union, Australia or Canada, or any other country specified in regulations made by the Minister.
	A designation made under the new "urgent" procedure may remain in place for a period of 56 days (subject to extension for a further 56 days where the necessary conditions are met). In order for the designation to remain in place after this, the Minister must certify that he or she has reasonable grounds to suspect that the designated person is an involved person.
	This section also amends provisions of section 11 in relation to the obligation to provide a designated person with a statement of the reasons in relation to their designation. Statements of reasons must be provided whether the urgent or the standard procedure is used.