{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/461",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Brokering services: non-UK activity relating to restricted goods and restricted technology",
  "text": "(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide brokering services in relation to an arrangement (“arrangement A”) whose object or effect is—\n(a) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of restricted goods from a third country to a place in Iran;\n(b) directly or indirectly making restricted goods available in a third country for direct or indirect supply or delivery—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(ii) to a place in Iran;\n(c) directly or indirectly making restricted technology available in a third country for transfer—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(ii) to a place in Iran;\n(d) the transfer of restricted technology from a place in a third country—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(ii) to a place in Iran;\n(e) the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of technical assistance relating to restricted goods or restricted technology—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(ii) for use in Iran;\n(f) the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of financial services—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(1), or\n(ii) where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(3);\n(g) directly or indirectly making funds available, in a non-UK country, to a person connected with Iran, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(1); or\n(h) the direct or indirect provision of funds from a non-UK country, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(3).\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 6 (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 that offence to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the brokering services were provided in relation to an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.\n(4) In this regulation—\n...\n“non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man;\n...\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation, the definition of “country” in section 62(1) of the Act does not apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 27(4) omitted (29.9.2026) by virtue of The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/983), regs. 1(2), 7(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 not in force at made date, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 27 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2019/627, reg. 8(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/461/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:44.769063+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."
}