The Export Control Order 2008 No. 3231

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Articles 2, 24

[F1 SCHEDULE 1 U.K. Goods Subject to Stricter Export and Trade Controls

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (31.8.2010) by The Export Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2007), arts. 1(1), 2, Sch.

Note: In this Schedule, defined terms are printed in quotation marks.

Definitions U.K.

In this Schedule:

• [F2 “attack helicopter” means rotary-wing aircraft designed, equipped or modified to engage targets by employing guided or unguided anti-armour, air-to-surface, air-to-subsurface, or air-to-air weapons and equipped with an integrated fire control and aiming system for these weapons, including versions of these aircraft which perform specialised reconnaissance or electronic warfare missions;]

• “cluster munitions” means conventional munitions designed to disperse or release “explosive submunitions” and includes those “explosive submunitions”, but does not include:

  (a)

  munitions or submunitions designed to dispense flares, smoke, pyrotechnics or chaff; or munitions designed exclusively for an air defence role,

  (b)

  munitions or submunitions designed to produce electrical or electronic effects,

  (c)

  munitions that have all of the following characteristics:

  (i)

  each munition contains fewer than ten “explosive submunitions”,

  (ii)

  each “explosive submunition” weighs more than four kilograms,

  (iii)

  each “explosive submunition” is designed to detect and engage a single target object,

  (iv)

  each “explosive submunition” is equipped with an electronic “self-destruction mechanism”,

  (v)

  each “explosive submunition” is equipped with an electronic “self-deactivating feature”;

• [F2 “combat aircraft” means fixed-wing or variable geometry wing aircraft designed, equipped or modified to engage targets by employing guided missiles, unguided rockets, bombs, guns, cannons or other weapons of destruction, including versions of these aircraft which perform specialised electronic warfare, suppression of air defence or reconnaissance missions. The term “combat aircraft” does not include primary trainer aircraft, unless designed, equipped or modified as described above.]

• “explosive bomblets” means conventional munitions, weighing less than 20 kilograms each, which are not self propelled and which, in order to perform their task, are designed to be dispersed or released by a dispenser affixed to an aircraft, and are designed to function by detonating an explosive charge prior to, on or after impact;

• “explosive submunitions” means conventional munitions, weighing less than 20 kilograms each, which, in order to perform their task, are dispersed or released by a cluster munition and are designed to function by detonating an explosive charge prior to, on or after impact;

• “ordinary handcuffs” means 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;

• “production” has the same meaning as in Schedule 2;

• “self-deactivating feature” means one which automatically renders a munition inoperable by means of the irreversible exhaustion of a component (eg, a battery) that is essential to the operation of the munition;

• “self-destruction mechanism” means an incorporated, automatically-functioning mechanism which is in addition to the primary initiating mechanism of a munition and which secures the destruction of the munition into which it is incorporated.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (9.4.2014) by The Export Control (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/702), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)

PART 1 U.K. Category A Goods

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 eg, 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”;
		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 (eg, 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.
5.		Hand-held, spiked batons.
Cluster munitions, explosive submunitions and explosive bomblets
6.		a.	“Cluster munitions”;
		b.	“Explosive bomblets” which are specifically designed to be dispersed or released from dispensers affixed to aircraft.
7.		“Explosive submunitions”
8.		Components specially designed for “cluster munitions”, “explosive submunitions” or “explosive bomblets”.

[F3 PART 2 U.K. CATEGORY B GOODS

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 1 Pt. 2 substituted (9.4.2014) by The Export Control (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/702), arts. 1, 2(2)(b)

Small arms and light weapons within ML1 and ML2 U.K.

9.   Goods specified in entry ML1.a, ML1.b, ML1.c or ML2.a in Schedule 2 that are designed to be carried, operated and fired by an individual or by three or fewer individuals acting together, other than mortars with a calibre of 100mm or more.

Accessories and ammunition for small arms and light weapons within ML1 and ML2 U.K.

10.   The following goods—

(a) accessories specified in entry ML1.d or ML2.c. in Schedule 2 that are capable of being used in connection with weapons falling within paragraph 9;

(b) weapon sights specified in entry ML5.a. in Schedule 2 that are designed for use within weapons falling within paragraph 9; and

(c) ammunition that is capable of being fired or launched by weapons falling within paragraph 9.

[F4 Non-military Firearms U.K.

10A.   [F5 Firearms, their parts and essential components and ammunition specified in entry PL9010 or PL9011 in Schedule 3.]]

Textual Amendments

F4 Sch. 1 para. 10A inserted (17.4.2015) by The Export Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/940), arts. 1, 2(5)

F5 Words in Sch. 1 para. 10A substituted (14.9.2018) by The Export Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/939), arts. 1, 2(2)

Light weapons within ML4 U.K.

11.   Equipment specified in entry ML4.b. in Schedule 2 that is—

(a) specially designed for firing or launching rockets, grenades, missiles or other explosive devices; and

(b) designed to be carried, operated and fired by an individual or by three or fewer individuals acting together.

Ammunition for light weapons within ML4 U.K.

12.   Rockets, grenades, missiles and other explosive devices that are—

(a) specified in entry ML4 in Schedule 2; and

(b) capable of being fired or launched from equipment falling within paragraph 11.

Hand grenades U.K.

13.   Grenades specified in entry ML4 in Schedule 2 that are designed to be thrown.

MANPADS, missiles for them, associated equipment and their specially designed components U.K.

14.   To the extent they do not fall within paragraph 11 or 12, the following goods—

(a) man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS), as follows:

(i) surface-to-air missile systems designed to be man-portable and operated and fired by a single individual;

(ii) surface-to-air missile systems designed to be operated and fired by more than one individual acting as a crew and portable by several individuals;

(b) missiles for MANPADS;

(c) “production” equipment specially designed for MANPADS;

(d) field test equipment specially designed for MANPADS;

(e) specialised training equipment and simulators for MANPADS.

Long-range missiles U.K.

15.   Missiles capable of a range of 300km or more which fall within Schedule 2.

Anti-vehicle landmines U.K.

16.   Land mines designed to be placed under, on or near the ground or other surface area and to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a vehicle.

Components for “goods” within this Part U.K.

17.   Components specially designed for goods falling within any of paragraphs 9 to 16.

Battle tanks and armoured combat vehicles within ML6 U.K.

18.   Vehicles specified in entry ML6.a in Schedule 2 as follows—

(a) Tracked or wheeled self-propelled armoured fighting vehicles with an unladen weight of 16.5 metric tonnes or more and with a main gun with a calibre of 75mm or more;

(b) Tracked, semi-tracked or wheeled self-propelled vehicles, with armoured protection, as follows:

(i) designed and equipped to transport a squad of four or more infantrymen; or

(ii) armed with an integral weapon with a calibre of 12.5mm or more or a missile launcher.

Large-calibre artillery systems within ML2 and ML4 U.K.

19.   To the extent that they do not fall within paragraph 9 or 11, the following goods—

(a) Guns or howitzers specified in entry ML2.a of Schedule 2 with a calibre of 75mm or more;

(b) Mortars specified in entry ML2.a of Schedule 2 with a calibre of 100mm or more; and

(c) Multiple-launch rocket systems specified in entry ML4.b of Schedule 2 with a calibre of 75 mm or more.

Combat aircraft and attack helicopters within ML10 U.K.

20.   “Combat aircraft” and “attack helicopters” specified in entry ML10.a or ML10.c of Schedule 2.

Warships within ML9 U.K.

21.   Vessels and submarines specified in entry ML9.a of Schedule 2 as follows—

(a) Having a standard displacement of 500 metric tons or above; or

(b) Having a standard displacement of less than 500 metric tons and equipped for launching missiles or torpedoes with a range of 25km or more.

Other missiles and missile launchers U.K.

22.   To the extent they are not covered elsewhere in this Part, the following goods specified in entry ML4 of Schedule 2—

(a) rockets or missiles capable of a range of 25km or more other than ‘ground-to-air missiles’;

(b) Equipment designed or modified for launching missiles or rockets in sub-paragraph (a).

Note: Paragraph 22 includes remotely piloted vehicles with the characteristics for missiles as defined above.

Technical Note:

‘ground-to-air missiles’ means those surface-to-air missiles which are mounted on fixed land sites or on wheeled or tracked mobile launchers.]]