The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Prohibitions relating to the associated provision of brokering services: non-UK activity

35.—(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide brokering services in relation to an arrangement (“arrangement A”) whose object or effect is—

(a) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of goods to which this paragraph applies from a third country to a place in Syria,

(b) directly or indirectly making goods to which this paragraph applies available in a third country for direct or indirect supply or delivery—

(i) to a person connected with Syria, or

(ii) to a place in Syria,

(c) directly or indirectly making technology to which this paragraph applies available in a third country for transfer—

(i) to a person connected with Syria, or

(ii) to a place in Syria,

(d) the transfer of technology to which this paragraph applies from a place in a third country—

(i) to a person connected with Syria, or

(ii) to a place in Syria,

(e) the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of technical assistance relating to goods or technology to which this paragraph applies —

(i) to a person connected with Syria, or

(ii) for use in Syria,

(f) the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of financial services—

(i) to a person connected with Syria, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 34(1), or

(ii) where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 34(3),

(g) directly or indirectly making funds available, in a non-UK country, to a person connected with Syria, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 34(1), or

(h) the direct or indirect provision of funds from a non-UK country, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 34(3).

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (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 to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the brokering services were provided in relation to an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.

(4) In this regulation—

“non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom;

“third country” means—

(a)

for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (b), a country that is not the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or Syria, and

(b)

for the purposes of any other provision of paragraph (1), a country that is not the United Kingdom or Syria.