{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-african-republic-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-african-republic-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/616",
  "legislation_title": "The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-african-republic-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Financial services and funds relating to military goods and military technology",
  "text": "(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide, to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual, financial services in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is—\n(a) the export of military goods,\n(b) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of military goods,\n(c) directly or indirectly making military goods or military technology available to a person,\n(d) the transfer of military technology, or\n(e) the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to military goods or military technology.\n(2) A person must not directly or indirectly make funds available to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in paragraph (1).\n(3) A person must not directly or indirectly provide financial services or funds in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is—\n(a) the export of military goods to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,\n(b) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of military goods to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,\n(c) directly or indirectly making military goods or military technology available to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,\n(d) the transfer of military technology to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual, or\n(e) the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to military goods or military technology to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) to (3) are subject to Part 6 (Exceptions and licences).\n(5) A person who contravenes a prohibition in any of paragraphs (1) to (3) commits an offence, but—\n(a) it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (1) or (2) (“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.\n(b) it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening a prohibition in paragraph (3) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the financial services or funds (as the case may be) were provided in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(1) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(2) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(3)(a) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(3)(b) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 26(3)(c) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 26(3)(d) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 26(3)(e) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 26(5)(a) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 10(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/616/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:17.892079+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."
}