The Export Control (Russia, Crimea and Sevastopol Sanctions) Order 2014

PART 4 U.K. Supplementary Provisions as to Offences

Circumvention of prohibitions U.K.

9.—(1) A person commits an offence and may be arrested where that person participates, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the object or effect of which is (whether directly or indirectly)—

(a) to circumvent any of the prohibitions in [F1 Articles 2(1), 2a(1) or (2)(a), 3(1), 4(1)(a) or (c) or 4(3)(a) of the Russia Sanctions Regulation] or Article 2c(1) or 2c(3)(a) of the Crimea and Sevastopol Regulation, or

(b) to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.

(2) A person commits an offence (and may be arrested) who participates, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the object or effect of which is (whether directly or indirectly)—

(a) to circumvent any of the prohibitions in [F2 Articles 2a(2)(b), 3a(1), 4(1)(b) or (d) or 4(3)(b) of the Russia Sanctions Regulation] or Article 2(b), 2a, 2b or 2c(3)(b) of the Crimea and Sevastopol Regulation, or

(b) to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in art. 9(1)(a) substituted (29.11.2014) by The Export Control (Russia, Crimea and Sevastopol Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2932), arts. 1, 3(d)(i)

F2 Words in art. 9(2)(a) substituted (29.11.2014) by The Export Control (Russia, Crimea and Sevastopol Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2932), arts. 1, 3(d)(ii)

Offences related to EU authorisations U.K.

10.—(1) A person commits an offence (and may be arrested) who, for the purpose of obtaining an EU authorisation—

(a) makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to that person's knowledge is false in a material particular; or

(b) recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular.

(2) An EU authorisation granted in connection with the application for which the false statement was made or the false document or information furnished is void from the time it was granted.

(3) A person who, having acted under the authority of an EU authorisation, fails to comply with a requirement or condition to which the EU authorisation is subject commits an offence and may be arrested, unless—

(a) the EU authorisation was modified after the completion of the act authorised; and

(b) the alleged failure to comply would not have been a failure had the EU authorisation not been so modified.