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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-goods-control-order-1987/schedule-1/part-II/chapter-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2070",
  "legislation_title": "The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-goods-control-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/II/chapter/10",
  "kind": "chapter",
  "number": "GROUP 3E",
  "heading": "Aircraft, Spacecraft, Compasses, Gyroscopic Apparatus, Marine Equipment and Ships (other than Warships and Naval Equipment)",
  "text": "IL1416\nShips, surface-effect vehicles, water-screw propellers, and specially designed components, the following–\n(1) Hydrofoil vessels with automatically controlled foil systems and capable of a speed of more than 40 knots in rough water (sea state five) …\nS,I\n(2) Surface-effect vehicles, namely hovercraft, air cushion vehicles of both the sidewall and skirted varieties and all variations of vehicles using the wing-in-ground effect for positive lift …\nA\n(3) Small waterplane area twin hull (SWATH) vessels having underwater hulls whose cross-sectional area varies along the longitudinal axis between points two major diameters from the bow and two major diameters from the stern …\nA\n(4) Ships, sea going, including sea going fishing vessels and coasters, designed for speeds of over 26 knots when fully loaded …\nS,I\n(5) Ships with hulls and propulsion machinery made wholly or primarily of non-magnetic materials …\nS,I\n(6) Ships with decks and platforms specially strengthed to receive weapons …\nS,I,L\n(7) Ships fitted with any of the following–\n(a) apparatus and equipment specified in Group 1 …\nS,I\n(b) apparatus and equipment specified in the entries in Group 3 relating to–\n(i) marine or terrestrial acoustic or ultrasonic systems for detecting or locating underwater or subterranean objects or features; …\nS,I\n(ii) communication, detection and tracking equipment; …\nS,I\n(iii) navigation, direction finding, radar equipment; or …\nS,I\n(iv) compasses and gyroscopic apparatus; or\n(c) degaussing equipment …\nS,I\n(8) Ships having special structural features for landing personnel and/or vehicles on a beach …\nI\n(9) Ships capable of supporting helicopter operations and maintenance …\nI\n(10) Ships capable of submerging …\nI\n(11) Ships not elsewhere specified in this Part of this Schedule of below 100 tons GRT including inflatable craft in an inflated or uninflated state, except lightvessels, fire floats and dredgers…\nI\n(12) Specially designed components for ships and surface effect vehicles specified in heads (1) to (11) above (inclusive), the following–\n(a) advanced hull forms incorporating any of the following–\n(i) stepped hulls for hydrofoil vessels; …\nA\n(ii) hulls for air cushion vehicles with trapezoidal platforms; …\nA\n(iii) hulls for surface-effect vehicles with catamaran-like walls; or…\nA\n(iv) hulls for wing-in-ground effect vehicles…\nA\n(b) fully submerged subcavitating or super-cavitating hydrofoils…\nA\n(c) lightweight structural components for hydrofoil vessels, SWATH vessels and surface-effect vehicles, constructed using anisotropic, orthotropic or sandwich construction methods…\nA\n(d) flexible skirts, seals and fingers for surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(e) systems for automatically controlling the stability of hydrofoil vessels, SWATH vessels or surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(f) power transmission shaft systems incorporating composite material components, for hydrofoil vessels and surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(g) lightweight, high capacity (K factor greater than 150) gearing (planetary, cross-connect and multiple input/output gears and bearings) for hydrofoil vessels and surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(h) water-cooled electrical propulsion machinery (motor and generator), including sectored-disc and concentric-drum motors for DC homopolar machines, for hydrofoil vessels and surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(i) superconducting electrical propulsion machinery for hydrofoil vessels, SWATH vessels and surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(j) lift fans for surface-effect vehicles, rated at more than 400 hp…\nA\n(k) water-jet propulsor systems rated at 3,000 input hp or more for hydrofoil vessels and surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(l) moisture and particulate separator systems capable of removing 99.9% of particles larger than two micrometres in diameter with a maxium pressure loss of 1.6 kPa (16 millibar), for gas turbine engine air inlets for hydrofoil vessels, SWATH vessels and surface-effect vehicles…\nA\n(m) underwater hulls and struts for SWATH vessels…\nA\n(13) Water-screw propellers, the following–\n(a) supercavitating propellers rated at more than 10,000 hp…\nA\n(b) contrarotating propellers rated at more than 20,000 hp…\nA\n(c) controllable-pitch propellers rated at more than 20,000 hp…\nA\n(d) ventilated, base-ventilated and super-ventilated propellers…\nA\nIL1417\nSubmersible systems, including those incorporated in a submersible vehicle, the following–\n(1) Automatically controlled atmosphere-regeneration systems specially designed or modified for submersible vehicles which, in a single chemical reaction cycle, ensure carbon dioxide removal and oxygen renewal…\nA\n(2) Systems specially designed or modified for the automated control of the motion of a submersible vehicle using navigation data and having closed-loop servo-control(s) having any of the following characteristics–\n(a) capable of moving the vehicle to within ten metres of a predetermined point in the water column; …\nA\n(b) capable of maintaining the position of the vehicle within ten metres of a predetermined point in the water column; or…\nA\n(c) capable of maintaining the position of the vehicle within ten metres while following a cable on or under the sea bed…\nA\n(3) Underwater vision systems, the following–\n(a) television systems (consisting of camera, lights, monitor and signal transmission equipment) specially designed or modified for remote operation with a submersible vehicle, with a limiting resolution, when measured in air, greater than 500 lines using IEEE standard 208/1960 or any equivalent standard…\nA\nIn this sub-head “limiting resolution” is a measure of resolution expressed in terms of the maximum number of lines per picture height discriminated on a test chart.\n(b) systems specially designed or modified for remote operation with a submersible vehicle employing techniques to minimize the effects of backscatter, such as range-gated illuminators…\nA\n(4) Remotely controlled articulated manipulators specially designed or modified for use with submersible vehicles and having any of the following characteristics–\n(a) systems which control the manipulator using information from sensors which measure force or torque applied to an external object, distance from an external object, or tactile sense between the manipulator and an external object…\nA\n(b) controlled by proportional master-slave techniques or by using a dedicated stored-programme computer; or…\nA\n(c) capable of exerting a force of 250 Newtons or more or a torque of 250 Newton-metres or more and using titanium based alloys or fibrous and filamentary composite materials in their structural members…\nA\n(Note also the entry in Group 3D relating to robots.)\n(5) Photographic cameras and associated equipment specially designed or modified for use under water, having a film format of 35 mm or larger and any of the following characteristics–\n(a) film advancement of more than 5 frames per second…\nA\n(b) annotation of the film with data provided by a source external to the camera…\nA\n(c) taking more than 250 full frame exposures without changing the film…\nA\n(d) autofocusing specially designed or modified for use under water…\nA\n(e) for operation at depths greater than 1,000 metres…\nA\n(6) Light systems specially designed or modified for use under water, the following–\n(a) Stroboscopic lights\n(i) with a light output of more than 150 joules per flash; or…\nA\n(ii) flash rates of more than 5 flashes per second at a light output energy of 10 joules per flash…\nA\n(b) Lights and associated equipment capable of operation at depths exceeding 1,000 metres…\nA\nIL1418\nDeep submergence vehicles, specially designed or modified associated systems, equipment, components and materials therefor, the following–\n(1) Deep submergence vehicles, whether or not for operation manned or unmanned, tethered or untethered, capable of operating at depths exceeding 1,000 metres…\nA\n(2) Specially designed or modified associated systems, equipment, components and materials for the vehicles specified in head (1), including but not limited to pressure housings or pressure hulls propulsion motors and thrusters and hull penetrators or connectors…\nA\nIL1425\nFloating docks and software therefor, the following–\n(1) Floating docks specially designed for use at remote locations, without support from shore bases …\nA\n(2) Floating docks specially equipped to permit the operation, maintenance or repair of nuclear reactors …\nA\n(3) Floating docks having both of the following characteristics …\nA\n(a) a lifting capacity of more than 40,000 short tons (36,364 tonnes); and\n(b) larger than 120 metres in length and 30 metres in width, measured between the pontoons.\n(4) Specially designed software for computer-controlled pumping and flooding systems for the floating docks specified in heads (1) to (3) above (inclusive) to permit the docking of listing vessels …\nA\n(For technology relating to this entry, see the entry in Group 4 relating thereto.)\nIL1431\nMarine gas turbine engines for marine propulsion or shipboard power generation, whether originally designed as such or adapted for such use, and specially designed components therefor …\nA\nIL1460\nAircraft and helicopters, aircraft engines and aircraft and helicopter equipment, the following–\n(1) Aircraft and helicopters, having a maximum all up weight of 680 Kg or more, incorporating or equipped with equipment specified in Group 1, other than in the entry in that group relating to military aircraft and helicopters, or in the entries in Group 3 relating to navigation, direction finding, radar and airborne communication equipment, or to compasses, gyroscopes, accelerometers and inertial equipment …\nA\n(2) Specially designed components for aircraft and helicopters specified in head (1) above …\nA\n(3) Aircraft and helicopters having a maximum all up weight of 680 Kg or more …\nL,ZL\n(4) Helicopter power transfer systems …\nA\nexcept those for use in civil helicopters only, the following–\n(a) those which have been in civil use in bona fide civil helicopters for more than 8 years; and\n(b) those for replacement in or servicing of specific, previously exported helicopters.\n(5) Gas turbine engines and auxiliary power units (APUs) for use in aircraft or helicopters …\nA\nexcept those for use in civil aircraft or helicopters only, the following–\n(a) jet, turboprop and turboshaft aircraft engines in civil use in bona fide civil aircraft or civil helicopters for more than 8 years; and\n(b) gas turbine powered aircraft APUs in civil use in bona fide civil aircraft or civil helicopters for more than 8 years.\n(6) Specially designed components for gas turbine engines, APUs and helicopter power transfer systems specified in heads (4) and (5) above, the following–\n(a) hot-section components …\nA\n(b) engine control system components …\nA\n(c) gas turbine engine or APU rotor system components (including bearings).\nA\n(For technology relating to this entry, see the entry in Group 4 relating thereto.)\nIL1465\nSpacecraft and launch vehicles, the following–\n(1) Spacecraft, manned or unmanned, (not including their payloads unless these fall within a description set out elsewhere in this Schedule), except scientific space probes which do not contain equipment specified either in head (3) below or elsewhere in this Schedule …\nA\n(2) Launch vehicles for spacecraft specified in head (1) above …\nA\n(3) Propulsion systems, guidance equipment, attitude control equipment; and on-board communication equipment for remote control of the equipment specified in heads (1) and (2) above …\nA\n(4) Specially designed components for any of the foregoing …\nA\nIL1485\nCompasses, gyroscopes (gyros), accelerometers and inertial equipment, the following–\n(1) Accelerometers with a threshold of 0.005 g or less, or a linearity error within 0.25% of full scale output, or both, which are designed for use in inertial navigation systems or in guidance systems, of all types …\nA\n(2) Automatic pilots used for purposes other than aircraft control and specially designed integration software therefor, except marine types for surface vessels …\nA\n(3) Gyro compasses with provision for determining and transmitting ship’s level reference data (roll, pitch) in addition to own ship’s course data …\nA\n(4) Gyro-astro compasses and other devices which derive position or orientation by means of automatically tracking celestial bodies …\nA\n(5) Gyro-stabilisers used for purposes other than aircraft control, except those for stabilising an entire surface vessel …\nA\n(6) Gyros with a rated free directional drift rate of less than 0.5° (1 Sigma or root mean square) per hour in a 1 g environment …\nA\n(7) Continuous output accelerometers which use servo or force balance techniques and gyros, both specified to function at acceleration levels greater than 100 g …\nA\n(8) Inertial or other equipment using accelerometers specified in heads (1) or (7) above or gyros specified in heads (6) or (7) above, and systems incorporating such equipment and specially designed integration software therefor …\nA\n(9) Integrated flight instrument systems which include gyro-stabilisers or automatic pilots for aircraft and specially designed integration software therefor …\nA\nexcept those systems integrated solely for VOR/ILS navigation and approaches.\n(10) Specially designed testing, calibration and alignment equipment for the equipment specified in heads (1) to (9) above (inclusive) …\nA\n(11) Specially designed components and software for the equipment specified in heads (1) to (10) above (inclusive) …\nA",
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