Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 1757

The Angola (United Nations Sanctions) (Isle of Man) Order 1998

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"restricted goods" means the goods falling within the Headings and Sub-headings of the Combined Nomenclature of the European Community established by Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2658/87, as amended[2], specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;

"restricted services" means ground or waterborne transportation services;

"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation;

"shipment" (and cognate expressions) and "stores" shall have the meanings they bear in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1986 (an Act of Tynwald);

"the Treasury" means the Isle of Man Treasury, a department of the Government of the Isle of Man;

"vehicle" means land transport vehicle.

Supply of restricted goods
     3.  - (1) Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this article, no person shall-

(a) supply or deliver; or

(b) agree to supply or deliver

any restricted goods to any person in Angola.

    (2) Nothing in paragraph (1)(b) above shall apply where the supply or delivery of the restricted goods to the person concerned is authorised by a licence granted under this article.

Supply of restricted services
     4.  - (1) Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this article, no person shall-

(a) supply; or

(b) agree to supply

any restricted services to any person in Angola.

    (2) Nothing in paragraph (1)(b) above shall apply where the supply of the restricted services to the person concerned is authorised by a licence granted under this article.

Exportation of restricted goods to Angola
     5. Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this article, or under the authority of a licence granted under the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994[3] or the Dual Use and Related Goods (Export Control) Regulations 1996[4], restricted goods are prohibited to be exported from the Isle of Man to any destination in Angola, or to any destination for the purpose of delivery, directly or indirectly, to or to the order of any person in Angola.

Use of ships, aircraft and vehicles: restricted goods and services
     6.  - (1) Without prejudice to the generality of articles 3 and 4 above, and except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this article, no ship or aircraft to which this article applies, and no vehicle within the Isle of Man shall be used-

(a) for the carriage of any restricted goods if the carriage is, or forms part of, carriage from any place outside Angola to any destination therein; or

(b) for the supply of any restricted services to any person in Angola.

    (2) This article applies to ships registered in the Isle of Man, to aircraft registered in the United Kingdom and to any other ship or aircraft that is for the time being chartered to any person who is-

(a) a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject or a British protected person and is ordinarily resident in the Isle of Man; or

(b) a body incorporated or constituted under the law of the Isle of Man.

    (3) If any ship, aircraft or vehicle is used in contravention of paragraph (1) above, then-

(a) in the case of a ship registered in the Isle of Man or any aircraft registered in the United Kingdom, the owner and the master of the ship or, as the case may be, the operator and the commander of the aircraft;

(b) in the case of any other ship or aircraft-


(i) the person to whom the ship or aircraft is for the time being chartered; and

(ii) if he is such a person as is referred to in paragraph (2) above, the master of the ship or, as the case may be, the operator and the commander of the aircraft; or



(c) in the case of a vehicle, the operator of the vehicle,

shall be guilty of an offence under this Order, unless he proves that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that-

(i) the carriage of the goods in question was, or formed part of, carriage from any place outside Angola to any destination therein; or

(ii) the supply of the services in question was to a person in Angola,



as the case may be.

    (4) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall apply where-

(a) the supply or delivery or exportation from the Isle of Man of the goods concerned to Angola was authorised by a licence granted by the relevant authority under article 3 or 5 above; or

(b) the supply of the services concerned to Angola was authorised by a licence granted by the relevant authority under article 4 above,

as the case may be.

    (5) Nothing in this article shall be construed so as to prejudice any other provision of law prohibiting or restricting the use of ships, aircraft or vehicles.

Assets of UNITA or persons connected with UNITA
     7.  - (1) Except with permission granted by the Treasury under this article, no person shall-

(a) make any payment, or part with any gold, securities or investments; or

(b) make any change in the persons to whose credit any sum is to stand or to whose order any gold, securities or investments are to be held,

where any such action is action to which this article applies.

    (2) This article applies to any action which is likely to make available to or for the benefit of UNITA or any person connected with UNITA any funds or any other financial assets or resources, whether by their removal from the Isle of Man or otherwise, or otherwise to result in the remittance or transfer of funds or other such assets or resources to or for the benefit of UNITA or any person connected with UNITA.

    (3) Any permission granted by or on behalf of the Treasury under this article may be granted either absolutely or subject to conditions and may be varied or revoked at any time by or on behalf of the Treasury.

    (4) In this article-

(a) "gold", "payment" and "securities" shall have the meanings they bear in section 2 of the Emergency Laws (Re-enactments and Repeals) Act 1964[5];

(b) "investments" means any asset, right or interest falling within any paragraph of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Financial Services Act 1986[6] and which is not a security;

(c) "person connected with UNITA" means any of the following persons-


(i) any senior official of UNITA;

(ii) any adult member of the immediate family of any senior official of UNITA; or

(iii) any person acting on behalf of a person described in paragraph (i) or (ii) above;



(d) "UNITA" means the Uniao Nacional para a Indepencia Total de Angola.

Application of articles 3, 4 and 7
     8.  - (1) The provisions of articles 3, 4 and 7 above shall apply to any person within the Isle of Man and to any person elsewhere who-

(a) is a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, or a British protected person and is ordinarily resident in the Isle of Man; or

(b) is a body incorporated or constituted under the law of the Isle of Man.

    (2) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4) below, any person specified in paragraph (1) above who contravenes the provisions of article 3, 4 or 7 above shall, in the Isle of Man, be guilty of an offence.

    (3) In the case of proceedings for an offence in contravention of article 3 above it shall be a defence for the accused person to prove that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the goods in question were to be supplied or delivered to a person in Angola.

    (4) In the case of proceedings for an offence in contravention of article 4 above it shall be a defence for the accused person to prove that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the services in question were to be supplied to a person in Angola.

Powers to demand evidence of destination which goods reach
     9. Any exporter or any shipper of goods which have been exported from the Isle of Man shall, if so required by the Treasury, furnish within such time as it may allow proof to its satisfaction that the goods have reached either-

(a) a destination to which they were authorised to be exported by a licence granted under this Order; or

(b) a destination to which their exportation was not prohibited by this Order,

and, if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Order unless he proves that he did not consent to or connive at the goods reaching any destination other than such a destination as aforesaid.

Offences in connection with applications for licences, conditions attaching to licences, etc.
     10.  - (1) If for the purposes of obtaining any licence under this Order any person makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular he shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

    (2) Any person who has done any act under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this Order and who fails to comply with any condition attaching to that licence shall be guilty of an offence under this Order:

Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under this paragraph where he proves that the condition with which he failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his consent, by the Treasury after the doing of the act authorised by the licence.

Declaration as to goods: powers of search
     11.  - (1) Any person who is about to leave the Isle of Man shall, if he is required to do so by an officer of Customs and Excise-

(a) declare whether or not he has with him any restricted goods which are destined for Angola or for any destination for delivery, directly or indirectly, to or to the order of any person in Angola; and

(b) produce any such goods as aforesaid which he has with him,

and such officer, and any person acting under his direction, may search that person for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has with him any such goods as aforesaid:

Provided that no person shall be searched in pursuance of this paragraph except by a person of the same sex.

    (2) Any person who without reasonable excuse refuses to make a declaration, fails to produce any goods or refuses to allow himself to be searched in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this article shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

    (3) Any person who under the provisions of this article makes a declaration which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly makes any declaration which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

Investigation, etc. of suspected ships
     12.  - (1) Where any authorised officer has reason to suspect that any ship to which article 6 above applies has been or is being or is about to be used in contravention of paragraph (1) of that article-

(a) he may (either alone or accompanied and assisted by persons under his authority) board the ship and search her and, for that purpose, may use or authorise the use of reasonable force;

(b) he may request the master of the ship to furnish such information relating to the ship and her cargo and produce for his inspection such documents so relating and such cargo as he may specify; and

(c) in the case of a ship that is reasonably suspected of being or of being about to be used in contravention of paragraph (1) of article 6 above, he may (either there and then or upon consideration of any information furnished or document or cargo produced in pursuance of a request made under sub-paragraph (b) above), with a view to the prevention of the commission (or the continued commission) of any such contravention or in order that enquiries into the matter may be pursued, take the further action specified in paragraph (2) below.

    (2) The further action referred to in paragraph (1)(c) above is either-

(a) to direct the master of the ship to refrain, except with the consent of any authorised officer, from landing at any port specified by the officer any part of the ship's cargo that is so specified; or

(b) to request the master of the ship to take any one or more of the following steps-


(i) to cause the ship not to proceed with the voyage on which she is then engaged or about to engage until the master is notified by an authorised officer that the ship may so proceed;

(ii) if the ship is then in a port in the Isle of Man, to cause her to remain there until the master is notified by an authorised officer that the ship may depart;

(iii) if the ship is then in any other place, to take her to any such port specified by the officer and to cause her to remain there until the master is notified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii) above; and

(iv) to take her to any other destination that may be specified by the officer in agreement with the master.

    (3) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 15(3) below, where-

(a) a master refuses or fails to comply with a request made under paragraph (2)(b) above, or

(b) an authorised officer otherwise has reason to suspect that a request that has been so made may not be complied with,

any such officer may take such steps as appear to him to be necessary to secure compliance with that request and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may for that purpose enter upon, or authorise entry upon, that ship and use, or authorise the use of, reasonable force.

    (4) In this article "authorised officer" means any officer as is referred to in section 74(1) of the Merchant Shipping Registration Act 1991 (an Act of Tynwald).

Investigation etc. of suspected aircraft
     13.  - (1) Where any authorised officer or authorised person has reason to suspect that any aircraft to which article 6 above applies has been or is being or is about to be used in contravention of paragraph (1) of either of that article-

(a) he may request the charterer, the operator and the commander of the aircraft or any of them to furnish such information relating to the aircraft and its cargo and produce for his inspection such documents so relating and such cargo as he may specify;

(b) he may (either alone or accompanied and assisted by persons under his authority) board the aircraft and search it and, for that purpose, may use or authorise the use of reasonable force; and

(c) if the aircraft is then in the Isle of Man, he may (either there and then or upon consideration of any information furnished or document or cargo produced in pursuance of a request made under sub-paragraph (a) above) further request the charterer, operator and the commander or any of them to cause the aircraft and any of its cargo to remain in the Isle of Man until notified that the aircraft may depart.

    (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 15(3) below, where an authorised officer or authorised person has reason to suspect that any request that has been made under paragraph (1)(c) above may not be complied with, he may take such steps as appear to him to be necessary to secure compliance with that request and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may for that purpose-

(a) enter, or authorise entry, upon any land and upon that aircraft;

(b) detain, or authorise the detention of, that aircraft and any of its cargo; and

(c) use, or authorise the use of, reasonable force.

    (3) Before or on exercising any power conferred by this article, an authorised person shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority.

    (4) In this article-

"authorised officer" means any officer of Customs and Excise;

"authorised person" means any person authorised by the Treasury for the purpose of this article either generally or in a particular case.

Investigation, etc. of suspected vehicles
     14.  - (1) Where any authorised officer or authorised person has reason to suspect that any vehicle in the Isle of Man has been or is being or is about to be used in contravention of article 6(1) above-

(a) he may request the operator and the driver of the vehicle or either of them to furnish such information relating to the vehicle and any goods contained in it and produce for his inspection such documents so relating and such goods as he may specify;

(b) he may (either alone or accompanied and assisted by persons under his authority) enter the vehicle and search it and, for that purpose, may use or authorise the use of reasonable force; and

(c) he may (either there and then or upon consideration of any information furnished or document or goods produced in pursuance of a request made under sub-paragraph (a) above) further request the operator or the driver to cause the vehicle and any goods contained in it to remain in the Isle of Man until notified that the vehicle may depart.

    (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 15(3) below, where any authorised officer or authorised person has reason to suspect that any request that has been made under paragraph (1)(c) above may not be complied with, he may take such steps as appear to him to be necessary to secure compliance with that request and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may for that purpose-

(a) enter, or authorise entry, upon any land and enter, or authorise entry of, that vehicle;

(b) detain, or authorise the detention of, that vehicle and any goods contained in it; and

(c) use, or authorise the use of, reasonable force.

    (3) Before or on exercising any power conferred by this article, an authorised person shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority.

    (4) In this article-

"authorised officer" means any officer of Customs and Excise;

"authorised person" means any person authorised by the Treasury for the purpose of this article either generally or in a particular case.

Provisions supplementary to articles 12 to 14
     15.  - (1) No information furnished or document produced by any person in pursuance of a request made under article 12, 13 or 14 above shall be disclosed except-

(a) with the consent of the person by whom the information was furnished or the document was produced:

Provided that a person who has obtained information or is in possession of a document only in his capacity as servant or agent of[a] another person may not give consent for the purposes of this sub-paragraph but such consent may instead be given by any person who is entitled to that information or to the possession of that document in his own right;

(b) to any person who would have been empowered under article 12, 13 or 14 above to request that it be furnished or produced or to any person holding or acting in any office under or in the service of the Crown in respect of the Government of the United Kingdom or under or in the service of the Government of the Isle of Man;

(c) on the authority of the Treasury, to any organ of the United Nations or to any person in the service of the United Nations or of the Government of any other country for the purpose of assisting the United Nations or that Government in securing compliance with or detecting evasion of measures in relation to Angola decided upon by the Security Council of the United Nations; or

(d) with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any proceedings for an offence under this Order or, with respect of any of the matters regulated by this Order, for an offence under any enactment relating to customs.

    (2) Any power conferred by article 12, 13 or 14 above to request the furnishing of information or the production of a document or of cargo for inspection shall include a power to specify whether information should be furnished orally or in writing and in what form and to specify the time by which and the place in which the information should be furnished or the document or cargo produced for inspection.

    (3) Each of the following persons shall be guilty of an offence under this Order, that is to say-

(a) a master of a ship who disobeys any direction given under article 12(2)(a) above;

(b) a master of a ship or a charterer or an operator or a commander of an aircraft or an operator or a driver of a vehicle who-


(i) without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails within a reasonable time to comply with any request made under article 12, 13 or 14 above by any person empowered to make it, or

(ii) wilfully furnishes false information or produces false documents to such a person in response to such a request;



(c) a master or a member of a crew of a ship or a charterer or an operator or a commander or a member of a crew of an aircraft or an operator or a driver of a vehicle who wilfully obstructs any person (or any person acting under the authority of that person) in the exercise of his powers under article 12, 13 or 14 above.

    (4) Nothing in articles 12 to 14 above shall be construed so as to prejudice any other provision of law conferring powers or imposing restrictions or enabling restrictions to be imposed with respect to ships, aircraft or vehicles.

Obtaining of evidence and information
     16. The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect in order to facilitate the obtaining of evidence and information for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Order and in order to facilitate the obtaining of evidence of the commission of an offence under this Order or, with respect to any of the matters regulated by this Order, of an offence under any enactment relating to customs.

Investigations by the Treasury
     17. Where the Treasury investigates or proposes to investigate any matter with a view to determining-

(a) whether there are grounds for believing that an offence under this Order has been committed; or

(b) whether a person should be prosecuted for such an offence,

that matter shall be treated as an assigned matter within the meaning of section 184(1) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1986 (an Act of Tynwald).

Penalties and proceedings
     18.  - (1) Any person guilty of an offence under article 6(3) or 8(2) above shall be liable-

(a) on conviction on information to custody for a term not exceeding seven years or to a fine or to both;

(b) on summary conviction to custody for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.

    (2) Any person guilty of an offence under article 15(3)(b)(ii) above or paragraph 5(b) or (d) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall be liable-

(a) on conviction on information to custody for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both;

(b) on summary conviction to custody for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both.

    (3) Any person guilty of an offence under article 10(1) or (2) or article 10(3) above shall be liable to-

(a) on conviction on information to custody for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both;

(b) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.

    (4) Any person guilty of an offence under article 9 or article 11(2) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

    (5) Any person guilty of an offence under article 15(3)(a), (b)(i) or (c) above or paragraph 5(a) or (c) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall be liable on summary conviction to custody for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.

    (6) Where any body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

    (7) Notwithstanding anything in section 75(1) of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1989 (an Act of Tynwald), a complaint relating to an offence under this Order which is triable by a court of summary jurisdiction may be heard if it is made at any time within 3 years after the commission of the offence and within 12 months after the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify the proceedings comes to his knowledge.

    (8) For the purposes of this article:

(a) a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor as to the date on which such evidence as is referred to in paragraph (7) above came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact; and

(b) a certificate purporting to be so signed shall be presumed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.

    (9) No proceedings for an offence under this Order, other than for a summary offence, shall be instituted except by the Treasury or by or with the consent of the Attorney General for the Isle of Man:

Provided that this paragraph shall not prevent the arrest of any person in respect of such an offence, or the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence, notwithstanding that the necessary consent to the institution of proceedings for the offence has not been obtained.

Exercise of powers of the Treasury
     19.  - (1) The Treasury may to such extent and subject to such restrictions and conditions as it may think proper, delegate or authorise the delegation of any of its powers under this Order (other than the power to give authority under Schedule 2 to this Order to apply for a search warrant) to any person, or class or description of persons, approved by it, and references in this Order to the Treasury shall be construed accordingly.

    (2) Any licence granted under this Order may be either general or special, may be subject to or without conditions, may be limited so as to expire on a specified date unless renewed and may be varied or revoked by the authority which granted it.


N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council

[2] OJ No. L256, 7.9.87, p.1; Annex 1 to the Regulation was substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2086/97, OJ No. L312, 14.11.97, p.1; there have been other amendments to Annex 1 which are not relevant to this Order.back

[3] S.I. 1994/1191, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.back

[4] S.I. 1996/2721, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.back

[5] 1964 c.60.back

[6] 1986 c.60.back