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Regulation 27 Enabling or facilitating the conduct of armed hostilitiesI1I2

United Kingdom

(1)

A person must not directly or indirectly provide to, or for the benefit of, a designated person—

(a)

technical assistance,

(b)

armed personnel,

(c)

financial services or funds, or

(d)

brokering services in relation to an arrangement whose object or effect is to provide, in a non-UK country, anything mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c),

where such provision enables or facilitates the conduct of armed hostilities.

(2)

Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 6 (Exceptions and licences).

(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 (“P”) to show that—

(a)

P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom, or for whose benefit, the technical assistance, armed personnel, financial services or funds or brokering services were provided was a designated person, or

(b)

P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the provision as mentioned in paragraph (1) would enable or facilitate the conduct of armed hostilities.

(4)

In this regulation—

  • “non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom;

  • “technical assistance” means the provision of technical support or any other technical service.

(5)

Nothing in this regulation is to be taken to limit the meaning of any of the prohibitions contained in regulations 20 to 26.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 27 not in force at made date, see reg. 1(2)

I2

Reg. 27 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 20(2)