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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-goods-control-order-1994/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1191",
  "legislation_title": "The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-goods-control-order-1994",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 and shall come into force for the purpose of issuing general licences on 4th May 1994 and for all other purposes on 25th May 1994.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“aircraft” means a fixed wing, swivel wing, rotary wing, tilt rotor or tilt wing airborne vehicle or helicopter;\n“basic scientific research” means experimental or theoretical work undertaken principally to acquire new knowledge of the fundamental principles of phenomena or observable facts and not primarily directed towards a specific practical aim or objective;\n“country” includes territory;\n“development” means any activity or phase prior to production and may include or relate to design, design research, design analysis, design concepts, design data, assembly and testing of prototypes, pilot production schemes, the process of transforming design data into a product, configuration design, integration design, or layout;\n“document” includes any medium or device by means of which information is recorded or stored including a magnetic or optical disk or tape or a solid state memory;\n“goods”, unless otherwise specified, means both used and unused goods;\n“importation” and “exportation” in relation to a vessel, submersible vehicle or aircraft includes the taking into or out of the United Kingdom of the vessel, submersible vehicle or aircraft notwithstanding that the vessel, submersible vehicle or aircraft is conveying goods or passengers, and whether or not it is moving under its own power; and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“isolated live cultures” includes live cultures in dormant form and in dried preparations;\n“Member State” means a Member State of the European Communities;\n“microorganisms” means bacteria, viruses, mycoplasms, rickettsiae, chlamydiae or fungi, whether natural, enhanced or modified, either in the form of isolated live cultures or as material including living material which has been deliberately inoculated or contaminated with such cultures;\n“microprogramme” means a sequence of elementary instructions, maintained in a special storage, the execution of which is initiated by the introduction of its reference instruction into an instruction register;\n“normal commercial journey” means a journey providing transport services in the ordinary course of business;\n“production” includes all production phases, including construction, production engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly (which includes mounting), inspection, testing and quality assurance;\n“programme” means a sequence of instructions to carry out a process in, or convertible into, a form executable by an electronic computer;\n“scheduled journey” means one of a series of journeys which are undertaken between the same two places and which together amount to a systematic service operated in such manner that the benefits thereof are available to members of the public from time to time seeking to take advantage of it;\n“software” means one or more programmes or microprogrammes fixed in any tangible medium of expression;\n“surface effect vehicle” means any air cushion vehicle (whether side wall or skirted) and any vehicle using the wing-in-ground effect for positive lift;\n“technology” means any document including blueprints, plans, diagrams, models, formulae, tables, engineering designs or specification, manuals or instructions, necessary for the development, production or use of goods except:\n(a) any document the information within which is generally available to the public or relates to basic scientific research;\n(b) any application for the grant of a patent (or any other form of protection for an invention) or for the registration of a design, or a semiconductor topography, in each case under the law of the United Kingdom or of any other country or under any treaty or international convention;\n(c) any document necessary to enable any such application to be filed, made or pursued;\n“toxins” means toxins in the form of deliberately isolated preparations or mixtures, no matter how produced, other than toxins present as contaminants of other materials such as pathological specimens, crops, foodstuffs or seed stocks of microorganisms;\n“use” means operation, installation (which includes on-site installation), maintenance, checking, repair, overhaul and refurbishing;\n“vessel” includes any ship, surface effect vehicle, small waterplane area vessel and hydrofoil, and the hull or part of the hull of a vessel.\n(3) In this Order—\n(a) a prohibition on exportation is a prohibition on exportation from the United Kingdom including a prohibition on shipment as ships' stores; and\n(b) numerical references in Schedule 1 hereto to standards and recommendations are references to the relevant standards and recommendations so numbered with such amendments (if any) thereto as may have been published before the making of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt. (specified definitions)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2663",
      "affecting_title": "The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 2) Order 1996"
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      "affecting": "uksi/1995/271",
      "affecting_title": "The Dual-Use and Related Goods (Export Control) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2618",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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