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OFSI General Licence INT/2023/3179120

Details of General Licence INT/2023/3179120 Payment to Water Companies for Water and Sewage.

• From: Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
• Published: 21 September 2023
• Last updated: 26 September 2025 — See all updates

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OFSI General Licence INT/2023/3179120

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• OFSI General Licence INT/2023/3179120
• OFSI Publication Notice INT/2023/3179120

The General Licence allows UK Designated Persons to make permitted payments to water companies from a frozen UK bank account and the water companies to make return payments to frozen UK bank accounts due as a result of overpayment.

Published 21 September 2023

Last updated 26 September 2025 + show all updates

1. 26 September 2025

   Reference to frozen UK bank accounts has been removed from Permissions 4.1 to make clear that payments by DPs are not restricted to those made from frozen funds; • The definition of Person has been updated to: ‘An individual or a body of persons corporate or unincorporate but does not include a UK DP’; • Annex 1, Schedule of UK Autonomous Sanctions Regulations, now includes the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025; and, • The reporting conditions have been updated to be submitted: “Within 30 days of the end of a Yearly Quarter” (refer to paragraph 8 of the General Licence).

2. 1 October 2024

   OFSI General Licence INT/2023/3179120 was updated as follows: 1. The definition of UK DPs 2. The definition of Return Payments 3. The validity of the General Licence is now indefinite.

3. 21 September 2023

   First published.