{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-12A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-12A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3231",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008",
  "path": "article/12A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12A",
  "heading": "Military end-use control supplementing the dual-use Regulation",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where a person (“a relevant person”)—\n(a) has been informed by the Secretary of State that dual-use goods, software or technology are, or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for use by a relevant entity, and\n(b) the dual-use goods, software or technology in question are not specified in Annex I to the dual-use Regulation.\n(2) Subject to articles 12B, 18 and 26, a relevant person shall not—\n(a) export the goods in question, or\n(b) transfer the software or technology in question by electronic means to a destination outside the United Kingdom.\n(3) In this article, “relevant entity” means—\n(a) any military forces, para-military forces, police forces, security services or intelligence services of a country that is one or more of the following—\n(i) an embargoed destination,\n(ii) subject to an arms embargo imposed by a decision of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or\n(iii) subject to an arms embargo imposed by a binding resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations, or\n(b) any person involved in the procurement, research, development, production or use of dual-use goods, software or technology on behalf, or at the direction, of any of the entities mentioned in subparagraph (a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 12A, 12B inserted (19.5.2022) by The Export Control (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/491), arts. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3231/article/12A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:03.100935+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}