# The Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, Regulation 21: Brokering services: non-UK activity relating to military goods and military technology

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide brokering services in relation to an arrangement (“arrangement A”) whose object or effect is—
(a) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of military goods from a third country to a place in Iraq,
(b) directly or indirectly making military goods available in a third country for direct or indirect supply or delivery—
(i) to a person connected with Iraq, or
(ii) to a place in Iraq,
(c) directly or indirectly making military technology available in a third country for transfer—
(i) to a person connected with Iraq, or
(ii) to a place in Iraq, or
(d) the transfer of military technology from a place in a third country—
(i) to a person connected with Iraq, or
(ii) to a place in Iraq.
(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 5 (Exceptions and licences).
(3) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the brokering services were provided in relation to an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.
(4) In this regulation—
“third country” means—
(a)for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (b), a country that is not the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or Iraq, and
(b)for the purposes of any other provision of paragraph (1), a country that is not the United Kingdom or Iraq.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/707/regulation/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/iraq-sanctions-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-21
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