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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1197",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendments to Annex II (list of goods referred to in Articles 3 and 4)",
  "text": "In Annex II (list of goods referred to in Articles 3 and 4), after the Introductory Note, Notes and the NB, for the table substitute—\n“\nCommodity code\nDescription\n1. Goods designed for the execution of human beings, as follows:\nex 4421 99\nex 8208 90 00\n1.1. Gallows, guillotines, and blades for guillotines.\nex 8543 70 90\nex 9401 79 00\nex 9401 80 00\nex 9402 10 00\n1.2. Electric chairs for the purpose of execution of human beings.\nex 9406 20 00\nex 9406 90 38\nex 9406 90 90\n1.3. Airtight vaults, made of e.g., steel and glass, designed for the purpose of execution of human beings by the administration of a lethal gas or substance.\nex 8413 81 00\nex 9018 90 50\nex 9018 90 60\nex 9018 90 84\n1.4. Automatic drug injection systems designed for the purpose of execution of human beings by the administration of a lethal chemical substance.\n2. Goods which are not suitable for use by law enforcement authorities to restrain human beings, as follows:\nex 8543 70 90\n2.1. Electric shock devices which are intended to be worn on the body by a restrained individual, such as belts, sleeves, and cuffs, designed for restraining human beings by the administration of electric shocks.\nex 7326 90 98\nex 7616 99 90\nex 8301 50 00\nex 3926 90 97\nex 4203 30 00\nex 4203 40 00\nex 4205 00 90\nex 4017 00 00\n2.2. Thumb-cuffs, finger-cuffs, thumbscrews, and finger-screws.\nNote:\nThis item includes both serrated and non-serrated cuffs and screws.\nex 7326 90 98\nex 7616 99 90\nex 8301 50 00\nex 3926 90 97\nex 4203 30 00\nex 4203 40 00\nex 4205 00 90\nex 6217 10 00\nex 6307 90 98\nex 4017 00 00\n2.3. Bar fetters, weighted leg restraints and gang chains comprising bar fetters or weighted leg restraints.\nNotes:\n1. Bar fetters are shackles or ankle rings fitted with a locking mechanism, linked by a rigid bar which is typically made of metal.\n2. This item includes bar fetters and weighted leg restraints which are linked to ordinary handcuffs by means of a chain.\nex 7326 90 98\nex 7616 99 90\nex 8301 50 00\nex 3926 90 97\nex 4203 30 00\nex 4203 40 00\nex 4205 00 90\nex 6217 10 00\nex 6307 90 98\nex 7315 81 00\nex 7315 82 00\nex 7315 89 00\nex 4017 00 00\n2.4. Gang chains.\nNote:\nGang chains comprise multiple pairs of handcuffs, leg cuffs, belly chains, or a combination of these, attached to a single chain (often made of metal), restraining several people together in a chain.\nex 7326 90 98\nex 7616 99 90\nex 7315 81 00\nex 7315 82 00\nex 7315 89 00\n2.5. Leg irons.\nNote:\nLeg irons are non-adjustable metal rings or other non-adjustable metal restraints that are fixed around a prisoner’s ankles, normally by means of a bolt or screw arrangement. They can be hinged or unhinged and are normally linked with a chain. (They are distinct from leg cuffs which can be adjusted on a detainee’s ankle (Annex III, 1.3.)).\nex 7326 90 98\nex 7616 99 90\nex 8301 50 00\nex 3926 90 97\nex 4203 30 00\nex 4203 40 00\nex 4205 00 90\nex 6217 10 00\nex 6307 90 98\nex 4017 00 00\n2.6. Cuffs for restraining human beings, designed to be anchored to a wall, floor or ceiling.\nex 9401 61 00\nex 9401 69 00\nex 9401 71 00\nex 9401 79 00\nex 9401 80 00\nex 9402 10 00\n2.7. Restraint chairs: chairs fitted with shackles or other devices to restrain a human being.\nNote:\nThis item does not prohibit chairs only fitted with straps or belts.\nex 9402 90 00\nex 9403 20 80\nex 9403 50 00\nex 9403 60 00\nex 9403 89 00\n2.8. Shackle boards and shackle beds: boards and beds fitted with shackles or other devices to restrain a human being.\nNote:\nThis item does not prohibit boards and beds only fitted with straps or belts.\nex 9402 90 00\nex 9403 50 00\nex 9403 60 00\nex 9403 70 00\nex 9403 89 00\n2.9. Cage beds: beds comprising a cage (four sides and a ceiling) or similar structure enclosing a human being within the confines of the bed, the ceiling or one or more of the sides of which are fitted with metal or other bars, and which can only be opened from outside.\nex 9402 90 00\nex 9403 20 20\nex 9403 50 00\nex 9403 60 90\nex 9403 70 00\nex 9403 89 00\n2.10. Net beds: beds comprising a cage (four sides and a ceiling) or similar structure enclosing a human being within the confines of the bed, the ceiling or one or more sides of which are fitted with nets, and which can only be opened from outside.\nex 6505 00 10\nex 6505 00 90\nex 6506 91 00\nex 6506 99 10\nex 6506 99 90\nex 6217 10 00\nex 6307 90 98\n2.11. Hoods and blindfolds solely designed for law enforcement purposes to block the vision and/or enclose the face of a person/detainee, including such hoods and blindfolds when linked by a chain to ordinary handcuffs or other restraints.\nNote:\nThis item does not include spit hoods which are controlled in Annex III 1.4.\n3. Portable devices which are not suitable for use by law enforcement authorities for the purpose of riot control or self-protection, as follows:\nex 9304 00 00\n3.1. Batons or truncheons made of metal or other material having a shaft with metal spikes.\nex 7326 90 98\nex 4205 00 90\nex 6602 00 00\nex 7326 90 98\nex 7806 00 80\nex 4203 29 90\nex 4015 19 00\n3.2. Weighted batons or batons encased in thick leather or rubber with additional weighting designed to increase kinetic impact to the target, and weighted gloves or other similar devices.\nNote:\n1. Weighted baton: A flat device consisting of metal (spring steel) encased in thick leather or rubber and used for slapping or striking a person; or a short baton consisting of spring steel encased in leather, sometimes weighted at one end with lead shot, and used for striking a person.\n2. Weighted gloves are usually made of leather and have powdered steel or lead sewn into the material over the knuckle, fingers, or back of the hand.\nex 4421 91 00\nex 4421 99 99\nex 3926 90 97\nex 6602 00 00\n3.3. Lathis.\nNote:\nLathis are long flexible batons (over 1m long), traditionally made of wood or bamboo but also polycarbonate of the kind used as a weapon by police officers.\nex 3926 90 97\nex 7326 90 98\n3.4. Shields with metal spikes.\nex 3926 20 00\nex 7326 90 98\nex 7616 99 90\nex 4017 00 00\n3.5. Body armour with spikes or serrations made of metal or other hard material.\nNote:\nThis item does not control body armours with load-bearing systems featuring parts made of metal or other hard material used to attach or carry equipment.\n4. Whips as follows:\nex 6602 00 00\n4.1. Whips comprising multiple lashes or thongs, such as knouts or cats o’nine tails.\nex 6602 00 00\n4.2. Whips having one or more lashes or thongs fitted with barbs, hooks, spikes, metal wire or similar objects enhancing the impact of the lash or thong.\nex 6602 00 00\n4.3. Sjamboks.\nNote:\nThis item alludes to a type of heavy whip, traditionally made of leather, or of other materials, such as plastic. This item does not cover instruments traditionally used for herding animals.\n5. Weapons and equipment disseminating incapacitating or irritating chemicals or impact projectiles and related ammunition which are not suitable for use by law enforcement authorities for the purpose of riot control or self-protection.\nex 8424 20 00\nex 8424 89 70\nex 9304 00 00\n5.1. Fixed equipment for the dissemination of incapacitating or irritating chemical substances in enclosed spaces, which can be attached to a wall or to a ceiling inside a building, comprises a canister of irritating or incapacitating chemical agents and is activated using a remote-control system.\nNote:\nThis item alludes to equipment or devices of the kind used in prisons and other places of detention. It does not prohibit fixed equipment designed for the dissemination of blinding substances (such as water vapour or fog), that do not cause direct physical harm, used in commercial or private enclosed spaces for the purpose of burglary prevention.\nex 9301 10 00\nex 9301 20 00\nex 9301 90 00\nex 9302 00 00\nex 9303 10 00\nex 9303 20 10\nex 9303 20 95\nex 9303 30 00\nex 9303 90 00\nex 9304 00 00\nex 9306 21 00\nex 9306 29 00\nex 9306 30 10\nex 9306 30 30\nex 9306 30 90\nex 9306 90 10\nex 9306 90 90\n5.2. Equipment and explosive projectiles for dispensing injurious quantities of riot control agents from aerial platforms.\nNote:\nThis item does not control smoke grenades and does not control aerial platforms as such. This item includes equipment where the mode of dispersal is inherently inaccurate, or the equipment or projectiles are able to disperse amounts of riot control agent that are injurious.\n”.",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1197/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:38.103283+00:00"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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