{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-2A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3231",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Crown application",
  "text": "(1) The following articles bind the Crown—\n(a) article 4 (movement of UK controlled dual-use goods, etc. to certain destinations);\n(b) article 6 (WMD purposes end-use control supplementing the dual-use Regulation);\n(c) article 8 (transit controls supplementing the dual-use Regulation);\n(d) article 42L (export and transfer control in relation to Northern Ireland: dual-use goods, software, and technology); and\n(e) article 42S (export control in relation to Northern Ireland: leg irons, gang chains, and portable electric shock devices).\n(2) The Crown is not criminally liable as a result of a contravention of any of those articles.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not affect the application of those articles to persons in the public service of the Crown.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2A inserted (10.8.2012) by The Export Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1910), arts. 1, 2, Sch. para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 2A(1)(c)-(e) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/137, regs. 1, 4(3) (as substituted by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1502), regs. 2(3), 7(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3231/article/2A",
    "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."
  }
}