{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/syria-united-nations-sanctions-cultural-property-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/syria-united-nations-sanctions-cultural-property-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1233",
  "legislation_title": "The Syria (United Nations Sanctions) (Cultural Property) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/syria-united-nations-sanctions-cultural-property-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Trade: application of information powers in CEMA",
  "text": "(1) Section 77A of CEMA applies in relation to a person carrying on a relevant activity as it applies in relation to a person concerned in the importation or exportation of goods but as if—\n(a) in subsection (1), the reference to a person concerned in the importation or exportation of goods for which for that purpose an entry is required by regulation 5 of the Customs Controls on Importation of Goods Regulations 1991 or an entry or specification is required by or under CEMA were to a person carrying on a relevant activity;\n(b) any other reference to importation or exportation were to a relevant activity;\n(c) any other reference to goods were to the goods, services or funds to which the relevant activity relates.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a “relevant activity” means an activity which would, unless done pursuant to regulation 15 (exception for the return of Syrian cultural property) or 16 (exception for acts done for purposes of national security or prevention of serious crime), constitute a contravention of—\n(a) any prohibition in Chapter 2 of Part 2 (Trade) except any prohibition on imports or exports, or\n(b) the prohibition in regulation 13 (circumventing etc. prohibitions).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1979 c.2. Section 77A was inserted by the Finance Act 1987 (c.16), section 10 and amended by S.I. 1992/3095."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2724 is amended by S.I. 1992/3095; S.I. 1993/3014; and S.I. 2011/1043 and it is prospectively revoked by S.I. 2018/1247."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 19"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1233/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:24.903986+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}