PART 5Trade
F2CHAPTER 4AAircraft and ships
Technical assistance relating to aircraft and ships46A
1
A person must not directly or indirectly provide to, or for the benefit of, a designated person technical assistance relating to—
a
an aircraft, or
b
a ship.
2
F1Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to any technical assistance which is prohibited under regulation 27 (technical assistance relating to restricted goods and restricted technology).
3
Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).
4
A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (1) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the technical assistance was provided to, or for the benefit of, a designated person.
5
In this regulation—
“aircraft” includes unmanned aircraft and aircraft capable of spaceflight activities;
“designated person” means a person designated under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) for the purposes of this regulation;
“ship” includes every description of vessel (including a hovercraft) used in navigation.
Pt. 5 Ch. 4A inserted (30.3.2022 at 5.00 p.m.) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/395), regs. 1(2), 14