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Paragraph 22 I1

United Kingdom

In regulation 37 (import of charcoal), at the end insert—

“(4)

A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) or (2) commits an offence, but—

(a)

it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the charcoal was consigned from Somalia;

(b)

it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (2) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the charcoal originated in Somalia.”

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Commencement

I1

Sch. 2 para. 22 in force at 31.12.2020, see art. 1(1)