{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-overseas-territories-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-overseas-territories-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1563",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (Overseas Territories) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-nuclear-overseas-territories-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 28 (import of certain goods from Iran), at the end insert—\n“(6) 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) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods were consigned from Iran;\n(b) it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (2) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods originated in Iran.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 16 in force at 31.12.2020, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1563/schedule/2/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:19:58.822688+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."
}