The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 5) Order 2000

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2000/2140 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2264

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 5) Order 2000

Made

22nd August 2000

Coming into force—

articles 1 and 2

30th August 2000

articles 3 and 4

31st August 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.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 5) Order 2000.

(2) In this Order, “the principal Order” means the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994(3).

(3) This article and Article 2 of this Order shall come into force on 30th August 2000. Articles 3 and 4 of this Order come into force on 31st August 2000.

2.  The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 4) Order 2000(4) is revoked.

3.  In Article 8(5) of the principal Order, the words after “at” shall be replaced by the words “the Applicant Services and Compliance Unit, Department of Trade and Industry, 4 Abbey Orchard Street, London SW1P 2HT.”.

4.—(1) The following amendments shall be made in Part III of Schedule 1 to the principal Order.

(2) In entry PL 5031.a.:

(a) the word “utility” shall be deleted; and

(b) after “protection” there shall be inserted—

“except:

1.   vehicles designed or fitted out for the transportation of valuables or funds;

2.   vehicles fitted with, or designed or modified to be fitted with, a plough or flail for the purpose of land mine clearance.”.

(3) Entry PL 5001.c. shall be replaced by the following text—

“c. Restraints specially designed for restraining human beings, as follows:

1.   Leg-irons;

2.   Gangchains;

3.   Electric shock belts;

4.   Shackles having a maximum locked dimension exceeding 240mm overall (i.e., including cuffs and connecting chain);

5.   Individual cuffs having an internal perimeter dimension when fully locked exceeding 165mm and shackles made therewith.”.

Kim Howells,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Consumer and Corporate Affairs,

Department of Trade and Industry

22nd August 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 by—

(a) changing the contact address of the Department of Trade and Industry for the purposes of notifications under Article 8(5);

(b) extending the controls to include all types of all wheel drive vehicles capable of off road use that satisfy the conditions stated in that Order, apart from certain vehicles (other than those specially designed or modified for military use) for the transport of valuable items or money or equipped for clearing land mines, not just all wheel drive utility vehicles that satisfy those conditions;

(c) controlling individual cuffs and extending controls on shackles (which include handcuffs) that satisfy certain conditions stated in that Order.

This Order supersedes the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 4) Order 2000, which is revoked before it comes into force. That Order omitted to insert into entry PL 5031.a. of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Order the exceptions now in Article 4(2)(b) of this Order.

(1)

1939 c. 69.

(2)

S.I. 1970/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1994/1191; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/2663 and 1997/2758.

(4)

S.I. 2000/2140.