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Regulation 38 Transport of military goods ...F6I1

United Kingdom

(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly supply or deliver goods to which this paragraph applies from a place in Syria to a third country where those goods—

(a)

originate in Syria, or

(b)

are consigned from Syria.

F1(2)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)

Paragraph (1) applies to—

F2(a)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

military goods.

(4)

F3Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).

(5)

A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) F4... commits an offence, but—

(a)

it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1)(a) ... to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods originated in Syria;

(a)

it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1)(b) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods were consigned from Syria.

(6)

In this regulation—

  • F5...

  • “third country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or Syria

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 38(2) omitted (25.4.2025) by virtue of The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/507), regs. 1(2), 11(b)

F2

Reg. 38(3)(a) omitted (25.4.2025) by virtue of The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/507), regs. 1(2), 11(c)

F3

Words in reg. 38(4) substituted (25.4.2025) by The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/507), regs. 1(2), 11(d)

F4

Words in reg. 38(5) omitted (25.4.2025) by virtue of The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/507), regs. 1(2), 11(e)

F5

Words in reg. 38(6) omitted (25.4.2025) by virtue of The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/507), regs. 1(2), 11(f)

F6

Words in reg. 38 heading omitted (25.4.2025) by virtue of The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/507), regs. 1(2), 11(a)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 38 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(3)