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Export of Goods (Licences for Exports to Indonesia) (Variation) Order 1999

S.I. 1999/2610 · Made 16 September 1999

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CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

Made 16th September 1999

Coming into force 16th September 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939f1 and now vested in himf2, and of all others enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1939 c. 69.

f2

S.I. 1970/1537.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, Commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Citation, Commencement and interpretation
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, Commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Licences for Exports to Indonesia) (Variation) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 16th September 1999.

2Citation, Commencement and interpretation

(1)

All standard individual export licences, standard individual transhipment export licences and open individual export licences authorising the export to Indonesia of goods of a description specified in Part III of Schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994f1 are hereby varied.

(2)

The variations referred to in paragraph (1) are:

(a)

a condition shall be added to each standard licence as described in paragraph (1) as follows:

“No goods may be exported under the authority of this licence between the dates of 16th September 1999 and 16th January 2000;”

and

(b)

there shall be substituted for the date specified for the expiry of the licence a date 123 days later than that date.

(c)

a condition shall be added to open individual licences as follows:

“No goods may be exported under the authority of this licence to Indonesia between the dates of 16th September 1999 and 16th January 2000.”

Signature

Stephen Byers

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

16th September 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to the Common Position of the European Union imposing an embargo on the export of military goods and equipment and a ban on the supply of equipment which might be used for internal repression or terrorism by varying the provisions of certain export licences to prevent the export of those goods during the period of operation of the Common Position which is stated to expire by 17th January 2000.