Regulation 28 Enabling or facilitating the conduct of armed hostilitiesI1

United Kingdom

F1(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly provide anything falling within paragraph (1A) to or for the benefit of an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual, or to any person acting on behalf or under the direction of such an armed group or associated individual, where such provision—

(a)

relates to the operations of the recipient in the Central African Republic, or

(b)

otherwise enables or facilitates the conduct of armed hostilities in the Central African Republic.

F2(1A)

The following fall within this paragraph—

(a)

technical assistance,

(b)

armed personnel,

(c)

financial services or funds, or

(d)

brokering services provided in relation to an arrangement whose object or effect is to provide, in a non-UK country, anything mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c).

(2)

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

F3(3)

A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that—

(a)

the provision as mentioned in paragraph (1)—

(i)

was to or for the benefit of an armed group operating in the Central African Republic or an associated individual, or to any person acting on behalf or under the direction of such a group or individual;

(ii)

related to the operations of the recipient in the Central African Republic or would otherwise enable or facilitate the conduct of armed hostilities in the Central African Republic; or

(b)

the individual to whom the provision as mentioned in paragraph (1) was made was an associated individual.

(4)

In this regulation—

“non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom;
“technical assistance” means the provision of technical support or any other technical service.

(5)

Nothing in this regulation is to be taken to limit the meaning of any of the prohibitions contained in Chapter 2.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 28(1) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(13)(a)
F2: Reg. 28(1A) inserted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(13)(b)
F3: Reg. 28(3) substituted (6.1.2026) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1327), regs. 1(2), 2(13)(c)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 28 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 10(2)