PART 4Trade

Enabling or facilitating conduct of armed hostilitiesI1I222

1

A person must not directly or indirectly provide to, or for the benefit of, a designated person—

a

technical assistance,

b

financial services or funds, or

c

brokering services in relation to an arrangement whose object or effect is to provide, in a non-UK country, technical assistance, financial services or funds,

where such provision enables or facilitates the conduct of armed hostilities.

2

Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 6 (exceptions and licences).

3

A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence (“P”) to show that—

a

P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom, or for whose benefit, the technical assistance, financial services or funds or brokering services were provided was a designated person; F1or

b

P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the provision as mentioned in paragraph (1) would enable or facilitate the conduct of armed hostilities.

4

In this regulation—

  • “non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom.

  • “technical assistance” means the provision of technical support or any other technical service.

5

Nothing in this regulation is to be taken to limit the meaning of any of the prohibitions contained in regulations 19 to 21.