The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda) (Channel Islands) Order 1996

Deliveries and supplies of certain goods to a prohibited destination

3.—(1) Except under the authority of a licence granted under this article—

(a) in the case of the Bailiwick of Guernsey by Her Majesty’s Procureur;

(b) in the case of the Bailiwick of Jersey by the Finance and Economics Committee,

no person shall supply or deliver, agree to supply or deliver, or do any act likely to promote the supply or delivery of, prohibited goods—

(i) to a prohibited destination;

(ii) to, or to the order of, a person connected with a prohibited destination; or

(iii) to any destination for the purpose of delivery, directly or indirectly, to a prohibited destination, or to, or to the order of, a person connected with a prohibited destination.

(2) The provisions of this article shall apply to any person within the Bailiwick of Guernsey or, as the case may be, the Bailiwick of Jersey, and to any person elsewhere who—

(a) is a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject or a British protected person and is ordinarily resident in the Bailiwick of Guernsey or, as the case may be, in the Bailiwick of Jersey;

(b) is a body incorporated or constituted under the law of the Bailiwick of Guernsey or, as the case may be, of the Bailiwick of Jersey.

(3) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (4) of this article, any person specified in paragraph (2) of this article who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) of this article shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

(4) In the case of proceedings for an offence in contravention of paragraph (1) of this article it shall be a defence for the accused person to prove—

(a) that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the goods in question were prohibited goods; or

(b) that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the goods were to be delivered or supplied to a prohibited destination or to, or to the order of, a person connected with a prohibited destination.

(5) Paragraph (1) of this article shall not apply to prohibited goods delivered or supplied to a prohibited destination by or on behalf of the United Nations or the peacekeeping forces of the Economic Community of West African States.

(6) Nothing in so much of paragraph (1) of this article as relates to the agreement to supply or doing any act likely to promote the supply or delivery of prohibited goods shall apply where the supply or delivery of the goods to the person concerned is authorised by a licence granted by Her Majesty’s Procureur or, as the case may be, by the Finance and Economics Committee under this article.