{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burma-restrictive-measures-overseas-territories-order-2009/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3008",
  "legislation_title": "The Burma (Restrictive Measures) (Overseas Territories) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burma-restrictive-measures-overseas-territories-order-2009",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Prohibition against creating a joint venture",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not create a joint venture with—\n(a) a listed enterprise;\n(b) a subsidiary enterprise of a listed enterprise; or\n(c) a person under the control of a listed enterprise.\n(2) A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) In proceedings for an offence under this article, it is a defence for a person to show that they did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the joint venture was being created with a body falling within sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3008/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:01:44.296925+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}