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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-nations-arms-embargoes-dependent-territories-order-1995/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1032",
  "legislation_title": "The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Dependent Territories) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-nations-arms-embargoes-dependent-territories-order-1995",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Carriage of certain goods destined for a prohibited destination",
  "text": "(1) Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Governor under this article, and without prejudice to the generality of article 3 of this Order, no ship or aircraft to which this article applies, and no vehicle within the Territory, shall be used for the carriage of goods specified in Schedule 2 to this Order if the carriage is or forms part of carriage from any place outside a prohibited destination to any place therein, or to, or to the order of, a person connected with a prohibited destination.\n(2) This article applies to ships registered in the Territory, to aircraft so registered and to any other ship or aircraft that is for the time being chartered to any person who is:\n(a) a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, or a British protected person, and is ordinarily resident in the Territory; or\n(b) a body incorporated or constituted under the law of the Territory.\n(3) If any ship, aircraft or vehicle is used in contravention of paragraph (1) of this article, then:\n(a) in the case of a ship registered in the Territory or any aircraft so registered, the owner and the master of the ship or, as the case may be, the operator and the commander of the aircraft; or\n(b) in the case of any other ship or aircraft, the person to whom the ship or aircraft is for the time being chartered and, if he is such a person as is referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) of this article, the master of the ship or, as the case may be, the operator and the commander of the aircraft; or\n(c) in the case of a vehicle, the operator of the vehicle,\nshall be guilty of an offence under this Order unless he proves that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the carriage of the goods in question was, or formed part of, carriage from any place outside a prohibited destination to any place therein or to, or to the order of, any person connected with a prohibited destination.\n(4) In the case of proceedings for an offence in contravention of paragraph (3) above, it shall be a defence for the accused person to prove that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the goods in question were goods specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.\n(5) Nothing in this article shall be construed so as to prejudice any other provision of law prohibiting or restricting the use of ships, aircraft or vehicles.\n(6) Nothing in this article shall apply where the supply or delivery of the goods to the person concerned is authorised by a licence granted by the Governor as referred to in paragraph (1) of article 3 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/272",
      "affecting_title": "The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Dependent Territories) (Amendment) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/272",
      "affecting_title": "The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Dependent Territories) (Amendment) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/3123",
      "affecting_title": "The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Dependent Territories) (Amendment) Order 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1032/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:08.823780+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."
}