Valid from 31/12/2020

PART 5U.K.Trade

CHAPTER 3U.K.Trade prohibitions relating to import, purchase and transportation

Transport of military goods, crude oil and petroleum productsU.K.

38.—(1) A person must not directly or indirectly supply or deliver goods to which this paragraph applies from a place in Syria to a third country where those goods—

(a)originate in Syria, or

(b)are consigned from Syria.

(2) A person must not directly or indirectly supply or deliver crude oil and petroleum products from a place in a non-UK country to a place in a different non-UK country where the crude oil or petroleum products originate in Syria.

(3) Paragraph (1) applies to—

(a)crude oil and petroleum products, and

(b)military goods.

(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).

(5) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) or (2) commits an offence, but—

(a)it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1)(a) or (2) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods originated in Syria;

(b)it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of contravening paragraph (1)(b) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods were consigned from Syria.

(6) In this regulation—

“non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man;

“third country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or Syria.

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