The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Ship classification services

60.—(1) A person must not provide classification services relating to —

(a) a specified ship,

(b) a ship registered in the DPRK, or

(c) a ship flying the flag of the DPRK.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 9 (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 ship was a specified ship, a ship registered in the DPRK or (as the case may be) a ship flying the flag of the DPRK.

(4) In this regulation—

“classification services” means any services supplied for or in connection with the classification or certification of a ship, including—

(a)

the production and application of classification rules or technical specification concerning the design, construction, equipment or maintenance of ships and shipboard management systems;

(b)

surveys and inspections in accordance with classification rules and procedures;

(c)

the assignment of a class notation;

(d)

the delivery, endorsement or renewal of certificates of compliance with classification rules or specifications;

“specified ship” means a ship specified by the Secretary of State under regulation 11(1) or (2).