Regulation 27N Technical assistance relating to aircraft and shipsF1F6

A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance to, or for the benefit of, F2any designated person, where the assistance relates to an aircraft or a ship.

Paragraph (1) does not apply to any technical assistance which is prohibited under F3regulation 25 (technical assistance relating to certain goods and technology).

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

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 technical assistance was provided to or for the benefit of a F4designated person.

In this regulation—

• “aircraft” includes unmanned aircraft and aircraft capable of spaceflight activities;

• “designated person” means a person designated under regulation 5 (power to designate persons) for the purposes of this regulation;

• “ship” includes every description of vessel (including a hovercraft) used in navigation;

• “spaceflight activities” has the meaning given in section 1(6) of the Space Industry Act 2018.