Introductory text
CUSTOMS
TRADE
Made 13th November 2025
Laid before Parliament 17th November 2025
Coming into force 16th December 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (3), 2(1) and (3), 4(1) and (3), 5(2), (4), (5) and (7) of the Export Control Act 2002f1, Article 15(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items (Recast)f2 and Article 24(1)(a) and (b) and (3)(b)(i) of Regulation (EU) 2019/125 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 January 2019 concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (codification)f3.
Annotations
Footnotes
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2002 c. 28; see section 11 for defined terms used in these provisions. Sections 1, 2, 4 and 5 were amended by article 6(2)(c) of the Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043); sections 5 and 11 were amended by regulation 2 of the Trade etc. in Dual-Use Items and Firearms etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/771), as amended by regulation 9 of the Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1502).
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EUR 2009/428; Article 15 was substituted by regulation 3(15) of the Trade etc. in Dual-Use Items and Firearms etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/771), as substituted by regulation 2(3) of the Trade etc. in Dual-Use Items and Firearms etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/806).
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EUR 2019/125; Article 24 was substituted by regulation 2(24) of the Trade in Torture etc. Goods (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1479).