The Export Control Order 2008

Licences

26.—(1) Nothing in Part 2, 3 or 4 prohibits an activity that is carried out under the authority of a UK licence.

(2) Unless it provides otherwise, a UK licence to export military goods also authorises the export or transfer of the minimum technology required for the installation, operation, maintenance and repair of the goods to the same destination as the goods.

(3) A UK licence to supply or deliver goods subject to trade controls also authorises—

(a) agreeing to supply or deliver; or

(b) doing any act calculated to promote the supply or delivery of

the goods.

(4) For the purposes of Article 6 (rules about authorisations) of the dual-use Regulation, the Secretary of State is empowered to grant authorisations.

(5) The authorisation required by Article 21(1) (exportation or transfer of sensitive items within the customs territory) of the dual-use Regulation for exportation or transfer of goods, software or technology from the United Kingdom is a licence granted by the Secretary of State.

(6) A licence granted by the Secretary of State may be—

(a) either general or granted to a particular person (except that a licence granted under the torture Regulation may not be a general licence);

(b) limited so as to expire on a specified date unless renewed;

(c) subject to, or without, conditions and any such condition may require any act or omission before or after the doing of the act authorised by the licence.