Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 9 (Exceptions and licences).

A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence to show that the person did not know, and had no reasonable cause to suspect, that the ship was a specified ship, a ship registered in the DPRK or (as the case may be) a ship flying the flag of the DPRK.

In this regulation—

• “classification services” means any services supplied for or in connection with the classification or certification of a ship, including—

  1. a

     the production and application of classification rules or technical specification concerning the design, construction, equipment or maintenance of ships and shipboard management systems;

  2. b

     surveys and inspections in accordance with classification rules and procedures;

  3. c

     the assignment of a class notation;

  4. d

     the delivery, endorsement or renewal of certificates of compliance with classification rules or specifications;

• “specified ship” means a ship specified by the Secretary of State under regulation 11(1) or (2).