The Export Control (North Korea and Ivory Coast Sanctions and Syria Amendment) Order 2013 No. 3182

PART 4 Supplementary Provisions as to Offences

Circumvention of prohibitions in the North Korea Regulation

9.—(1) A person commits an offence (and may be arrested) who participates, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the object or effect of which is (whether directly or indirectly)—

(a) to circumvent any of the prohibitions in Articles 2(1)(a), 4(a), 4a(1)(a) and 4b of the North Korea Regulation, or

(b) to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.

(2) A person commits an offence (and may be arrested) who participates, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the object or effect of which is (whether directly or indirectly)—

(a) to circumvent any of the prohibitions in Articles 2(3), 3(1)(a) to 3(1)(d) and 4a(1)(b) or (c) of the North Korea Regulation, or

(b) to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.

Circumvention of prohibitions in the Ivory Coast Regulation

10.  A person commits an offence (and may be arrested) who participates, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the object or effect of which is (whether directly or indirectly)—

(a) to circumvent any of the prohibitions in Article 3(a) of the Ivory Coast Regulation, or

(b) to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.

Offences related to EU authorisations

11.—(1) A person commits an offence (and may be arrested) who, for the purpose of obtaining an EU authorisation—

(a) makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to that person’s knowledge is false in a material particular; or

(b) recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular.

(2) An EU authorisation granted in connection with the application for which the false statement was made or the false document or information furnished is void from the time it was granted.

(3) A person who, having acted under the authority of an EU authorisation, fails to comply with a requirement or condition to which the EU authorisation is subject commits an offence and may be arrested, unless—

(a) the EU authorisation was modified after the completion of the act authorised; and

(b) the failure to comply would not have been a failure had the EU authorisation not been so modified.