Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 109

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment) Order 2000

Made

19th January 2000

Coming into force

24th January 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 1 of the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939(1) and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1. This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 24th January 2000.

2. The following Orders shall be revoked.

(a)The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 4) Order 1999(3).

(b)The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 5) Order 1999(4).

3. “Indonesia” shall be removed from Schedule 3 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994(5).

Kim Howells

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs,

Department of Trade and Industry

19th January 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 by removing Indonesia from the list of countries to which arms in transit through the United Kingdom may not be exported without a licence. Consequently the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 4) Order 1999 and the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 5) Order 1999 have been revoked.

(1)

1939 c. 69.

(2)

S.I. 1979/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1999/2609.

(4)

S.I. 1999/2627.

(5)

S.I. 1994/1191: the relevant amending Orders are S.I. 1994/2711, 1997/323 and 2758, 1999/335, 2609 and 2627.