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Regulation 27 Brokering services: non-UK activity relating to military goods and military technologyI1

United Kingdom

(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly provide brokering services in relation to an arrangement (“arrangement A”) whose object or effect is—

(a)

the direct or indirect supply or delivery of military goods from a third country to F1an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,

F2(b)

directly or indirectly making military goods available in a third country for direct or indirect supply or delivery to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,

F3(c)

directly or indirectly making military technology available in a third country for transfer to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,

F4(d)

the transfer of military technology from a place in a third country to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,

F5(e)

the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of technical assistance relating to military goods or military technology to an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual,

(f)

the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of financial services—

(i)

to F6an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(1), or

(ii)

where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(3),

(g)

directly or indirectly making funds available, in a non-UK country, to F7an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(1), or

(h)

the direct or indirect provision of funds from a non-UK country, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(3).

(2)

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

(3)

A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the brokering services were provided in relation to an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.

(4)

In this regulation—

  • “non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom;

  • “third country” means—

    1. (a)

      for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (b), a country that is not the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or the Central African Republic, and

    2. (b)

      for the purposes of any other provision of paragraph (1), a country that is not the United Kingdom or the Central African Republic.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 27(1)(a) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(a)

F2

Reg. 27(1)(b) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(b)

F3

Reg. 27(1)(c) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(c)

F4

Reg. 27(1)(d) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(d)

F5

Reg. 27(1)(e) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(e)

F6

Words in reg. 27(1)(f)(i) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(f)

F7

Words in reg. 27(1)(g) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(g)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 27 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 10(2)