# The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2012, Article 10J: Offences related to the provision of access to ports


(1) It is an offence for a person (“P”) to provide access to ports in the Territory to any vessel that P knows or has reasonable cause to suspect—
(a) is owned, operated, crewed or flagged by North Korea;
(b) is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by a person listed in Annex XIII, XV, XVI, or XVII to the Council Regulation;
(c) contains restricted goods, luxury goods, aviation fuel, gold and ores, coal, iron and iron ore, petroleum products or any other goods prohibited under this Order;
(d) has refused to be inspected for carriage of goods prohibited by this Order after such inspection has been authorised by the vessel’s flag State; or
(e) is without nationality and has refused to be inspected for carriage of goods prohibited by this Order.
(f) is a designated vessel that the Committee has required be denied access to the ports of United Nations Member States.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if—
(a) access to a port is needed by the vessel in the case of emergency;
(b) in the case of a vessel referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (e), the vessel is coming into port for inspection; or
(c) the vessel is returning to its port of origin.
(3) This article is subject to articles 11 and 12.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3066/article/10J (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea-sanctions-overseas-territories-order-2012/article-10J
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