{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-43B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-43B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1314",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (Sanctions) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/43B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43B",
  "heading": "Technical assistance relating to ships",
  "text": "(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance relating to a ship to, or for the benefit of, a designated person.\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 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 designated person.\n(4) In this regulation, a “designated person” means a person designated under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) for the purposes of this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 6 Ch. 4A inserted (29.9.2026) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/983), regs. 1(2), 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1314/regulation/43B",
    "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."
}