{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3231",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transit controls supplementing the dual-use Regulation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to articles 17 and 26, no person shall export goods listed in Annex I to the dual-use Regulation where the goods in question are entering and passing through the United Kingdom with a final destination outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.\n(2) Paragraph (3) applies where a person (“the exporter”)—\n(a) has been informed by the Secretary of State that dual-use goods are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for purposes referred to in Article 4(1) (WMD purposes end-use control) of the assimilated dual-use Regulation or Article 4(1)(a) (WMD purposes end-use control) of the EU dual-use Regulation; or\n(b) is aware that dual-use goods specified are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for purposes referred to in Article 4(1) (WMD purposes end-use control) of the assimilated dual-use Regulation or Article 4(1)(a) (WMD purposes end-use control) of the EU dual-use Regulation;\nand the dual-use goods in question are goods which are not listed in Annex I to the dual-use Regulation and which are entering and passing through the United Kingdom with a final destination outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.\n(3) Subject to article 26, the exporter shall not export the goods in question.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8 substituted (27.8.2009) by The Export Control (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2151), art. 1, Sch. para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 8(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/137), regs. 1, 4(6)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 8(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/137), regs. 1, 4(6)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 8(2) substituted (7.12.2022) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1300), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in art. 8(2)(a)(b) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 8(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/137), regs. 1, 4(6)(c); 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/8",
    "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."
  }
}