{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haiti-sanctions-regulations-2022/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haiti-sanctions-regulations-2022/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1281",
  "legislation_title": "The Haiti (Sanctions) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haiti-sanctions-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Military goods and military technology available",
  "text": "(1) A person must not ...—\n(a) directly or indirectly make military goods or military technology available to a person connected with Haiti;\n(b) directly or indirectly make military goods or military technology available for use in Haiti.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 5 (Exceptions and licences).\n(3) A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but ... but\n(a) it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1)(a) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person was connected with Haiti;\n(b) it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1)(b) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods or technology were for use in Haiti.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) omitted (23.7.2025) by virtue of The Haiti (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/786), regs. 1(2), 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 17(1)(a)(b) and punctuation mark inserted (23.7.2025) by The Haiti (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/786), regs. 1(2), 8(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(3) omitted (23.7.2025) by virtue of The Haiti (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/786), regs. 1(2), 8(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 17(3)(a)(b) and punctuation mark inserted (23.7.2025) by The Haiti (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/786), regs. 1(2), 8(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 heading substituted (23.7.2025) by The Haiti (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/786), regs. 1(2), 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 28.12.2022, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1281/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:52:33.668718+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}