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Regulation 23 Making military goods and military technology availableI1

United Kingdom

F1(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly make military goods or military technology available to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual.

(2)

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

F2(3)

A person (“P”) who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for P to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the armed group was operating in the Central African Republic or that the individual was an associated individual.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 23(1) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(8)(a)

F2

Reg. 23(3) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(8)(b)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 23 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 10(2)