PART 4Supplementary provisions as to offences
Circumvention of prohibitions in the Iran Sanctions Regulation12
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 Articles 2a(1)(a), 2a(1)(b), 3a(1)(a), 3a(1)(b), 4a, 4b(a), 5(a), 10d(1)(a), 10d(1)(b), 15a(1)(a) and 15a(1)(b) of the Iran Sanctions Regulation, or
b
to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.
2
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 Articles 2a(1)(c) 2a(1)(d), 2a(1)(e), 3a(1)(c), 3a(1)(d), 3a(1)(e), 4b(b), 4b(c), 4c, 5(b), 5(c), 10d(1)(c) and 15a(1)(c) of the Iran Sanctions Regulation, or
b
to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.
Circumvention of prohibitions in the Iran Human Rights Regulation13
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 Articles 1a(1)(a), 1a(1)(b), 1b(1) and 1c(1)(a) of the Iran Human Rights Regulation, or
b
to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.
2
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 Articles 1a(1)(c) or 1c(1)(b) and 1c(1)(c) of the Iran Human Rights Regulation, or
b
to enable or facilitate the contravention of any such prohibition.
Offences related to an EU authorisation or a licence under this Order14
1
A person commits an offence and may be arrested who, for the purpose of obtaining an EU authorisation or a licence under this Order—
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 or a licence under this Order 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 or a licence under this Order, fails to comply with a requirement or condition to which the EU authorisation or the licence 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.