# The Export Control Order 2008, Part 1: Category A Goods

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Certain Security and Para-Military Police Equipment
1.
Goods designed for the execution of human beings, as follows—
a.
Gallows and guillotines;
b.
Electric chairs;
c.
Air-tight vaults made of eg, steel and glass, designed for the purpose of execution of human beings by the administration of lethal gas or substance;
d.
Automatic drug injection systems designed for the purpose of execution of human beings by the administration of a lethal chemical substance.
2.
Restraints specially designed for restraining human beings, as follows—
a.
Leg-irons, gangchains, shackles and individual cuffs or shackle bracelets except those that are “ordinary handcuffs”;
b.
Restraint chairs unless designed for disabled persons;
c.
Shackle boards;
d.
Thumb-cuffs and thumb-screws, including serrated thumb-cuffs;
e.
Electric shock belts.
3.
Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an electric shock (eg, electric-shock batons, electric-shock shields, stun-guns and electric-shock dart-guns).
4.
Components specially designed or modified for the devices in paragraph 3.
5.
Hand-held, spiked batons.
Cluster munitions, explosive submunitions and explosive bomblets
6.
a.
“Cluster munitions”;
b.
“Explosive bomblets” which are specifically designed to be dispersed or released from dispensers affixed to aircraft.
7.
“Explosive submunitions”
8.
Components specially designed for “cluster munitions”, “explosive submunitions” or “explosive bomblets”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3231/schedule/1/part/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/schedule-1/part-1
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.