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PART 6General

Amendment to the 2008 Order in relation to Syria

14.—(1) In Schedule 4 to the 2008 Order, in Part 4, at the appropriate place insert “Syria”.

(2) In this article, “the 2008 Order” means the Export Control Order 2008(1).

Amendment to the Export Control (Syria Sanctions) Order 2013

15.  The Export Control (Syria Sanctions ) Order 2013(2) is amended as follows—

(a)in article 4, for “a person shall not (directly or indirectly) export, supply or transfer” substitute “a person commits an offence and may be arrested if that person (directly or indirectly) exports, supplies or transfers”;

(b)in article 5(1) for “a person shall not (directly or indirectly) provide” substitute “a person commits an offence and may be arrested if that person (directly or indirectly) provides”.

Review

16.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)carry out a review of this Order,

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c)publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the provisions of the North Korea Regulation and the Ivory Coast Regulation and the measures taken to implement them in other member States.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the provisions of the North Korea Regulation and the Ivory Coast Regulation established by this Order and the measures taken to implement them,

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this Order must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force.

(5) Reports under this Order are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.