{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1314",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (Sanctions) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Financial services and funds relating to goods of strategic concern and technology of strategic concern",
  "text": "(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide, to a person connected with Iran, financial services in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is—\n(a) the export of goods of strategic concern,\n(b) the direct or indirect supply or delivery ofgoods of strategic concern,\n(c) directly or indirectly making goods of strategic concern or technology of strategic concern available to a person,\n(d) the transfer of technology of strategic concern, or\n(e) the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to goods of strategic concern or technology of strategic concern.\n(2) A person must not directly or indirectly make funds available to a person connected with Iran in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in paragraph (1).\n(3) A person must not directly or indirectly provide financial services or funds in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is—\n(a) the export of goods of strategic concern to, or for use in, Iran,\n(b) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of goods of strategic concern to a place in Iran,\n(c) directly or indirectly making goods of strategic concern or technology of strategic concern available—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(ii) for use in Iran,\n(d) the transfer of technology of strategic concern—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(ii) to a place in Iran, or\n(e) the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to goods of strategic concern or technology of strategic concern—\n(i) to a person connected with Iran, or\n(ii) for use in Iran.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) to (3) are subject to Part 8 (Exceptions and licences).\n(5) A person who contravenes a prohibition in any of paragraphs (1) to (3) commits an offence, but—\n(a) it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (1) or (2) (“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 an offence of contravening a prohibition in paragraph (3) to show that the person 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 that paragraph.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 42 substituted (13.9.2024) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/944), regs. 1(2), 3(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 42 substituted (13.9.2024) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/944), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 42 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/42",
    "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."
}