The Export Control (Security and Para-military Goods) Order 2006

Article 13

SCHEDULE 1 CERTAIN PROHIBITED GOODS

Article 3

“SCHEDULE 1A CERTAIN PROHIBITED SECURITY AND PARAMILITARY GOODS

Security and para-military police “ goods” as follows:

1.   Gangchains and leg-irons specially designed for restraining human beings.

2.   Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an electric shock (e.g., electric-shock batons, electric-shock shields, stun-guns and electric- shock dart-guns having a no load voltage exceeding 10,000 volts).

3.   Electric–shock belts designed for restraining human beings by the administration of electric shocks having a no-load voltage exceeding 10 000 volts.”

Article 19

SCHEDULE 2 CONTROLLED AND RESTRICTED GOODS

Article 2

“SCHEDULE 1 CONTROLLED GOODS

The following are controlled goods for the purposes of this Order:

1.   Goods, used and unused, specified in Schedules 1 and 1A to the Export of Goods, Transfer of Technology and Provision of Technical Assistance (Control) Order 2003.

2.   The following goods:

(a) portable devices for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration or dissemination of an incapacitating chemical substance;

(b) Pelargonic acid vanillylamide (PAVA) (CAS 2444-46-4);

(c) Oleoresin capsicum (OC) (CAS 8023-77-6).

Article 2

SCHEDULE 2 RESTRICTED GOODS

The following are restricted goods for the purposes of this Order:

Certain Security and Para-Military Police Equipment

1.   Goods designed for the execution of human beings, as follows—

(a) Gallows and guillotines

(b) Electric chairs

(c) Air-tight vaults made of e.g. steel and glass, designed for the purpose of execution of human beings by the administration of lethal gas or substance

(d) Automatic drug injection systems designed for the purpose of execution of human beings by the administration of a lethal chemical substance.

2.   Restraints specially designed for restraining human beings, as follows—

(a) Leg-irons, gangchains, shackles and individual cuffs or shackle bracelets except those that are ‘ ordinary handcuffs’. ‘Ordinary handcuffs’ are handcuffs which have an overall dimension including chain, measured from the outer edge of one cuff to the outer edge of the other cuff, between 150 and 240mm when locked and have not been modified to cause physical pain or suffering;

(b) Restraint chairs unless designed for disabled persons;

(c) Shackle boards;

(d) Thumb-cuffs and thumb-screws, including serrated thumb-cuffs;

(e) Electric shock belts.

3.   Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an electric shock (e.g., electric-shock batons, electric-shock shields, stun-guns and electric- shock dart-guns).

4.   Components specially designed or modified for the devices in paragraph 3.

Certain Missiles

5.   Missiles capable of a range of 300km or more, and specially designed components therefor.”