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Regulation 46Z33 Brokering services relating to Russia’s vulnerable goods and Russia’s vulnerable technologyF1F5

(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly provide brokering services to a person connected with Russia in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement (“arrangement A”) whose object or effect is—

(a)

the export of Russia’s vulnerable goods;

(b)

the direct or indirect supply or delivery of Russia’s vulnerable goods;

(c)

directly or indirectly making Russia’s vulnerable goods F2or Russia’s vulnerable technology available to a person;

(F3ca)

the transfer of Russia’s vulnerable technology from a place in a third country—

(i)

to a person connected with Russia, or

(ii)

to a place in Russia.

(d)

the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to Russia’s vulnerable goods F4or Russia’s vulnerable technology;

(e)

the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of financial services—

(i)

to a person connected with Russia, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 46Z32(1), or

(ii)

where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 46Z32(3);

(f)

directly or indirectly making funds available, in a non-UK country, to a person connected with Russia, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 46Z32(1); or

(g)

the direct or indirect provision of funds from a non-UK country, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 46Z32(3).

(2)

Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (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, “non-UK country” means a country other than the United Kingdom.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Pt. 5 Chs. 4L, 4M inserted (1.1.2023) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 15) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1110), regs. 1(2)(a), 6

F2

Words in reg. 46Z33(1)(c) inserted (24.4.2025) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/504), regs. 1(2), 8(5)(6)(d) (with reg. 17)

F3

Reg. 46Z33(1)(ca) inserted (24.4.2025) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/504), regs. 1(2), 8(10) (with reg. 17)

F4

Words in reg. 46Z33(1)(d) inserted (24.4.2025) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/504), regs. 1(2), 8(5)(6)(d) (with reg. 17)

F5

Words in reg. 46Z33 heading inserted (24.4.2025) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/504), regs. 1(2), 8(3) (with reg. 17)

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations extended (British overseas territories) (with modifications) (31.12.2020 immediately after both S.I. 2020/590 and S.I. 2020/951 have come into force) by The Russia (Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1571), arts. 1(1), 2, Schs. 1, 2 (as amended: (11.3.2021) by S.I. 2021/288, arts. 1(1), 2(2); (14.4.2022) by S.I. 2022/453, arts. 1(1), 3-38; (20.7.2022) by S.I. 2022/843, arts. 1(1), 3; (10.11.2022) by S.I. 2022/1167, arts. 1(1), 3-17; (15.12.2022) by S.I. 2022/1338, arts. 1(1), 3-10; (9.3.2023) by S.I. 2023/291, arts. 1(1), 3-9; (20.7.2023) by S.I. 2023/846, arts. 1(1), 3, 5-22; (30.9.2023) by S.I. 2023/846, arts. 1(2), 4; (14.3.2024) by S.I. 2024/370, arts. 1, 3-13; (3.10.2024) by S.I. 2024/987, arts. 1(1), 3-6; and (11.12.2025) by S.I. 2025/1307, art. 1(1), Sch. 15)

Notes on Chapter 4M

Textual amendments

F2

Words in Pt. 5 Ch. 4M heading inserted (24.4.2025) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/504), regs. 1(2), 8(2) (with reg. 17)