Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision enabling sanctions to be imposed where appropriate for the purposes of compliance with United Nations obligations or other international obligations or for the purposes of furthering the prevention of terrorism or for the purposes of national security or international peace and security or for the purposes of furthering foreign policy objectives; to make provision for the purposes of the detection, investigation and prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and for the purposes of implementing Standards published by the Financial Action Task Force relating to combating threats to the integrity of the international financial system; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2018 c. 13
Introduced by	Boris Johnson (Commons) Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon (Lords)
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	23 May 2018
Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA 2018) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to the United Kingdom.

The Act has two purposes; a) To enable the UK to create its own sanctions framework, allowing it to issue sanctions rather than adopting EU or UN models, and b) to make provisions of the purposes of the detection, investigation and prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, and to implement standards published by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), removing the need to adopt EU directives.^[1]