23.—(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance relating to military goods or military technology to, or for the benefit of, a designated person.
(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 6 (exceptions and licences).
(3) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom, or for whose benefit, the technical assistance was provided was a designated person.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 23 not in force at made date, see reg. 1(2)
I2Reg. 23 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2019/627, reg. 11(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)