Regulation 6 Amendment of regulation 42 (making energy-related goods available)

After regulation 42(1) insert—

“(1A)

A person must not directly or indirectly make energy-related goods available to a person connected with Russia.”.

In regulation 42(2), for “Paragraph (1) is”, substitute “Paragraphs (1) and (1A) are”.

After regulation 42(3) insert—

“(4)

A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1A) 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 person was connected with Russia.”.