The Export Control (North Korea Sanctions and Iran, Ivory Coast and Syria Amendment) Order 2017

PART 1 Introductory

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Export Control (North Korea Sanctions and Iran, Ivory Coast and Syria Amendment) Order 2017 and comes into force on 22nd February 2017.

Revocation

2.  The Export Control (North Korea and Ivory Coast Sanctions and Syria Amendment) Order 2013(1) is revoked.

Application

3.  An offence may be committed under this Order—

(a) in the United Kingdom by any person;

(b) elsewhere by any person who is a United Kingdom person within the meaning of section 11 of the Export Control Act 2002.

Interpretation

4.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1979 Act” means the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979(2);

“EU authorisation” means an authorisation granted under Article 2(5), 2(7), 2a(3), 3a(1), 3a(3), 4(4) of the North Korea Regulation; and

“the North Korea Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 329/2007(3) concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and a reference to an Annex to that Regulation is a reference to that Annex as amended from time to time.

(2) An expression used in both this Order and in the North Korea Regulation has the meaning that it bears in that Regulation.

(1)

S.I. 2013/3182.

(2)

1979 c.2.

(3)

OJ No L 88, 29.3.2007, p.1, as most recently amended by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/80 of 16 January 2017 (OJ No L 12, 17.1.2017, p.86).