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Regulation 8 Supply and delivery of illegally removed Syrian cultural propertyI1

United Kingdom

(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly supply or deliver illegally removed Syrian cultural property from a third country to any other third country.

(2)

Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 3 (Exceptions).

(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 goods were illegally removed Syrian cultural property.

(4)

In this regulation, “third country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man.

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Commencement

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Reg. 8 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 19