PART 5Trade

CHAPTER 2F1Exports to Belarus and related activities

Annotations:

Brokering services: F2certain arrangements relating to non-UK activitiesI1I227

1

A person must not directly or indirectly provide brokering services in relation to an arrangement (“arrangement A”) whose object or effect is—

a

the direct or indirect supply or delivery of F3relevant goods from a third country to a place in Belarus,

b

directly or indirectly making F3relevant goods available in a third country for direct or indirect supply or delivery—

i

to a person connected with Belarus, or

ii

to a place in Belarus,

c

directly or indirectly making F3relevant technology available in a third country for transfer—

i

to a person connected with Belarus, or

ii

to a place in Belarus,

d

the transfer of F3relevant technology from a place in a third country—

i

to a person connected with Belarus, or

ii

to a place in Belarus,

e

the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of technical assistance relating to F3relevant goods or F3relevant technology—

i

to a person connected with Belarus, or

ii

for use in Belarus,

f

the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of financial services—

i

to a person connected with Belarus, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(1), or

ii

where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(3),

g

directly or indirectly making funds available, in a non-UK country, to a person connected with Belarus where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(1), or

h

the direct or indirect provision of funds from a non-UK country, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 26(3).

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 to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the brokering services were provided in relation to an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.

4

In this regulation—

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

  • F4“relevant goods” and “relevant technology” have the meanings given in regulation 26;

  • third country” means—

    1. a

      for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (b), a country that is not the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or Belarus, and

    2. b

      for the purposes of any other provision of paragraph (1), a country that is not the United Kingdom or Belarus.