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SCHEDULES

[F1SCHEDULE 3CU.K.[F2Defence and Security Goods and Defence and Security Technology]

PART 3U.K.Internal repression goods and internal repression technology

Firearms and related goodsU.K.

1.  Firearms, ammunition and related accessories, as follows—

(a)firearms;

(b)ammunition specially designed for firearms;

(c)weapon-sights.

2.  Simulators for training persons to use firearms.

3.  Bombs and grenades.

[F3Other related goodsU.K.

3A.(1) Any goods within commodity codes 9303 and 9304 not covered by paragraphs 1 to 3 above.

(2) Paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 applies for the purposes of interpreting sub-paragraph (1).]

Textual Amendments

VehiclesU.K.

4.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the following types of vehicles—

(a)vehicles equipped with a water cannon, specially designed or modified for the purpose of riot control;

(b)vehicles specially designed or modified to be electrified to repel boarders;

(c)vehicles specially designed or modified to remove barricades, including construction equipment with ballistic protection;

(d)vehicles specially designed for the transport or transfer of prisoners or detainees;

(e)vehicles specially designed to deploy mobile barriers.

(2) Components for the vehicles specified in sub-paragraphs (1)(a) to (e) that have been designed for the purposes of riot control.

(3) Vehicles that might otherwise fall within sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (e) are not internal repression goods if they are specially designed for the purposes of fire-fighting.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph, “vehicle” includes a trailer.

Explosive substances and related goodsU.K.

5.(1) Equipment and devices specially designed to initiate explosions by electrical or non-electrical means, including—

(a)firing sets;

(b)detonators; (codes for electric detonators and detonating caps);

(c)igniters;

(d)boosters;

(e)detonating cord.

(2) Components that have been specially designed for any thing mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).

(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to any thing that has been specially designed for a specific commercial use.

(4) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (3), a “specific commercial use” means the actuation or operation by explosive means of other equipment or devices the function of which is not the creation of explosions, including—

(a)car air-bag inflaters;

(b)electric-surge arresters;

(c)fire sprinkler actuators.

(5) Linear cutting explosive charges.

(6) The following explosives and related substances—

(a)amatol;

(b)nitrocellulose (containing more than 12.5 % nitrogen);

(c)nitroglycol;

(d)pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN);

(e)picryl chloride;

(f)2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT).

Other goodsU.K.

6.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the following equipment designed for the protection of a person—

(a)body armour providing ballistic or stabbing protection or both;

(b)helmets providing ballistic or fragmentation protection, or both, including anti-riot helmets;

(c)anti-riot shields and ballistic shields.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to—

(a)any thing specially designed to protect persons for the following purposes—

(i)participation in competitive sport;

(ii)ensuring safety at work;

(b)any thing mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b) when accompanying a person for that person’s own protection.

7.  Night vision equipment.

8.  Thermal imaging equipment.

9.  Image intensifier tubes.

10.  Razor barbed wire.

11.  The following types of knives—

(a)knives that are designed for use by military personnel (military knives);

(b)knives that are designed for use as a weapon for inflicting injury (combat knives);

(c)bayonets with blade lengths in excess of 10 cm.

12.  Law enforcement striking weapons, including saps, police batons, side handle batons, tonfas, sjamboks, and whips.

13.(1) Handcuffs, straitjackets and specially designed components and accessories.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to—

(a)medical devices that are equipped to restrain patient movement during medical procedures;

(b)devices which confine memory impaired patients to appropriate medical facilities.

14.  Technology exclusively for the development or production of equipment controlled by paragraph 15.

15.[F4(1)] Chemical agents, including tear gas formulation containing 1 per cent. or less of orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS), or 1 per cent. or less of chloroacetophenone (CN), except in individual containers with a net weight of 20 grams or less; liquid pepper except when packaged in individual containers with a net weight of 3 ounces (85.05 grams) or less; smoke bombs; non-irritant smoke flares, canisters, grenades and charges; and other pyrotechnic articles having dual military and commercial use, and specially designed components thereof.

[F5(2) Other irritating chemical substances, and mixtures thereof containing at least 0.3 % by weight of the active substance, as follows, except where the material is incorporated in a medical product—

Commodity CodeDescription
2934 9990Dibenzo[b,f][1,4]oxazepine (CR) (CAS 257-07-8)
2939 79908-Methyl-N-vanillyl-trans-6-nonenamide (capsaicin) (CAS 404-86-4)
2939 79908-Methyl-N-vanillylnonamide (dihydrocapsaicin) (CAS 19408-84-5)
2939 7990N-Vanillyl-9-methyldec-7-(E)-enamide (homocapsaicin) (CAS 58493-48-4)
2939 7990N-Vanillyl-9-methyldecanamide (homodihydrocapsaicin) (CAS 20279-06-5)
2939 7990N-Vanillyl-7-methyloctanamide (nordihydrocapsaicin) (CAS 28789-35-7)
2934 99904-Nonanolylmorpholine (MPA) (CAS 5299-64-9)
2924 2970Cis-4-acetylaminodicyclohexylmethane (CAS 37794-87-9)
2921 2900N,N’-Bis(isopropyl)ethylenediimine
2921 2900N,N’-Bis(tert-butyl)ethylenediimine

Note: For the purposes of paragraph (2) which precedes this table, “medical product” means—

(1) a pharmaceutical formulation designed for human administration in the treatment of medical conditions, and

(2) prepackaged for distribution as a clinical or medical product.]

Textual Amendments

F4Sch. 3C Pt. 3 para. 15 renumbered as Sch. 3C Pt. 3 para. 15(1) (21.4.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/440), regs. 1(2), 14(5)(a)

16.  Fingerprinting powders, dyes, and inks.

Production equipmentU.K.

17.  Any equipment which is specially designed or modified for the development or for one or more of the production phases of any item mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 13 of this Part.

Software and technologyU.K.

18.  Any software which is specially designed for the simulators mentioned in paragraph 2.

19.  Any technology which is specially designed for the development, production or use of any item mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 11.

InterpretationU.K.

20.(1) In this Part, “firearm” means any portable barrelled weapon that expels, is designed to expel or may be converted to expel, a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of a combustible propellant.

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, the following terms have the meaning given to them in Annex I of the Dual-Use Regulation—

“development”;

“production”;

“software”;

“technology”;

“use”.]