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Regulation 9 Making available and acquisition of illegally removed Syrian cultural propertyI1

United Kingdom

(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly—

(a)

make available illegally removed Syrian cultural property to another person;

(b)

acquire illegally removed Syrian cultural property from another person.

(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.

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Reg. 9 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 19