{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-33C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-33C.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/33C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33C",
  "heading": "Technical assistance relating to certain tankers and cargo vessels",
  "text": "(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance relating to a tanker or cargo vessel to, or for the benefit of, a person connected with Iran.\n(2) A person must not directly or indirectly—\n(a) provide financial services, or\n(b) make funds available,\nin pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is the provision of technical assistance referred to in paragraph (1).\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to Part 6 (Exceptions and licences).\n(5) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraphs (1) or (2) commits an offence, but—\n(a) 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 person connected to Iran;\n(b) it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (2) (“Q”) to show that Q did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the financial services or funds (as the case may be) were provided in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in paragraph (2).\n(6) In this regulation, “tanker or cargo vessel” means any thing which falls within the following commodity codes—\n(a) 8901 2010 (seagoing tankers);\n(b) 8901 20 90 (other tankers);\n(c) 8901 30 10 (seagoing refrigerated vessels);\n(d) 8901 30 90 (other refrigerated vessels);\n(e) 8901 90 00 (other seagoing vessels for the transport of goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods);\n(f) 8901 9090 00 (other vessels for the transport of goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 33A-33F inserted (29.9.2026) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/983), regs. 1(2), 7(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/461/regulation/33C",
    "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."
}