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[F1Military and WMD Goods, Ship Supply Services and Related Offences] U.K.

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[F2Use of ships, aircraft and vehicles: Military and WMD goods to IranU.K.

4A.—(1) Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State under this article, no ship or aircraft to which this article applies, and no vehicle within the United Kingdom, shall be used for the carriage of WMD goods, other than permitted light water reactor goods, or military goods if the carriage is, or forms part of, carriage from any place outside Iran to any destination therein.

(2) This article applies—

(a)to any United Kingdom ship;

(b)to aircraft registered in the United Kingdom; and

(c)to any other ship or aircraft that is for the time being chartered to any person who is—

(i)a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, a British National (Overseas) or a British protected person; or

(ii)a body incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.

(3) If any ship, aircraft or vehicle referred to in paragraph (1) is used in contravention of paragraph (1) then—

(a)in the case of a United Kingdom ship or any aircraft registered in the United Kingdom, the owner and the master of the ship or, as the case may be, the operator and the commander of the aircraft; or

(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 or she is such a person as is referred to in paragraph (2)(c)(i) or (ii), the master of the ship or, as the case may be, the operator and the commander of the aircraft; or

(c)in the case of a vehicle, the operator of the vehicle,

shall be guilty of an offence under this Order, unless the person proves that he or she 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 Iran to any destination therein.

(4) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall apply where the supply or delivery or exportation from the United Kingdom of the goods concerned to Iran was authorised by a licence granted by the Secretary of State under the Export Control Order 2008.

(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.]

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