Regulation 18 Interception and monitoring services

After regulation 24, insert—

“Provision of interception and monitoring services

24A.

(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly provide interception and monitoring services to, or for the benefit of, the Government of Belarus.

(2)

Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 6 (Exceptions and licences).

(3)

A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the services were provided to or for the benefit of the Government of Belarus.”