{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/983",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Ships: technical assistance and the provision and procurement of services",
  "text": "After regulation 43 (brokering services: non-UK activity relating to goods of strategic concern and technology or strategic concern), insert—\n“Chapter 4A\nShips\nInterpretation of this Chapter\n43A In this Chapter—\n“chartering services” means services associated with the chartering of a ship;\n“crew services” means services associated with the manning of a ship or the provision of a crew or members of a crew for a ship;\n“operating services” means services associated with the operation of a ship;\n“ship” includes every description of vessel (including a hovercraft) used in navigation;\n“specified ship” means a ship specified by the Secretary of State under regulation 51 (specification of ships).\nTechnical assistance relating to ships\n43B (1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance relating to a ship to, or for the benefit of, a designated person.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 8 (Exceptions and licences).\n(3) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (1) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the technical assistance was provided to, or for the benefit of, a designated person.\n(4) In this regulation, a “designated person” means a person designated under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) for the purposes of this regulation.\nProvision of services relating to specified ships\n43C (1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide in relation to a specified ship—\n(a) brokering services;\n(b) chartering services;\n(c) crew services;\n(d) financial services or funds;\n(e) operating services;\n(f) technical assistance;\n(2) A person must not directly or indirectly provide services relating to the acquisition, sale, transfer or supply of a specified ship.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to Part 8 (Exceptions and licences).\n(4) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) or (2) commits an offence, but—\n(a) it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the ship in relation to which the assistance, services or funds (as the case may be) were provided was a specified ship;\n(b) it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (2) (“Q”) to show that Q did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the ship in relation to whose acquisition, sale, transfer or supply the services where provided was a specified ship.\nProcurement of services relating to specified ships\n43D (1) A person must not directly or indirectly procure services relating to a specified ship.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, services relating to a specified ship include, in particular, services involving the use of that specified ship.\n(3) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 8 (Exceptions and licences).\n(4) A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the ship in relation to which the services were procured was a specified ship.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/983/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:55:39.041753+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."
}