The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Brokering services: [F1 certain arrangements relating to non-UK activities] U.K.

27.—(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 [F2 relevant] goods from a third country to a place in Belarus,

(b) directly or indirectly making [F2 relevant] 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 [F2 relevant] 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 [F2 relevant] 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 [F2 relevant] goods or [F2 relevant] 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;

[F3 “relevant goods” and “relevant technology” have the meanings given in regulation 26;]

“third country” means—

(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

(b)

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

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 27 heading substituted (5.7.2022) by The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/748), regs. 1(2), 17(h)(i)

F2 Word in reg. 27(1) substituted (5.7.2022) by The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/748), regs. 1(2), 17(h)(ii)

F3 Words in reg. 27(4) inserted (5.7.2022) by The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/748), regs. 1(2), 17(h)(iii)

Commencement Information

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. 2019/627, reg. 12(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)