{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-41.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1314",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (Sanctions) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/41",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Technical assistance relating to goods of strategic concern and technology of strategic concern",
  "text": "(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance relating to goods of strategic concern or technology of strategic concern—\n(a) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(b) for use in Iran.\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—\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 Iran;\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 Iran.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 41 substituted (13.9.2024) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/944), regs. 1(2), 3(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 41 substituted (13.9.2024) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/944), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 41 in force at 14.12.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1314/regulation/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:37.715143+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."
}