24.—(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide financial services to, or for the benefit of, a designated person in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is—
(a)the export of military goods,
(b)the direct or indirect supply or delivery of military goods,
(c)directly or indirectly making military goods or military technology available to a person,
(d)the transfer of military technology, or
(e)the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to military goods or military technology.
(2) A person must not directly or indirectly make funds available to, or for the benefit of, a designated person in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in paragraph (1).
(3) A person must not directly or indirectly provide financial services or funds in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is—
(a)the export of military goods to, or for the benefit of, a designated person;
(b)the direct or indirect supply or delivery of military goods to, or for the benefit of, a designated person;
(c)directly or indirectly making military goods or military technology available to, or for the benefit of, a designated person;
(d)the transfer of military technology to, or for the benefit of, a designated person; or
(e)the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to military goods or military technology to, or for the benefit of, a designated person.
(4) Paragraphs (1) to (3) are subject to Part 6 (exceptions and licences).
(5) A person who contravenes a prohibition in any of paragraphs (1) to (3) commits an offence but—
(a)it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom, or for whose benefit, the financial services were provided was a designated person;
(b)it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (2) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom, or for whose benefit, the funds were made available was a designated person;
(c)it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (3) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the financial services or funds (as the case may be) were provided in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.