PART 5Trade
CHAPTER 4Trade prohibitions relating to particular categories of goods
Goods prohibitions relating to gold, precious metals or diamonds42.
(1)
The export of gold, precious metals or diamonds to a Syrian regime person is prohibited.
(2)
The import of gold, precious metals or diamonds consigned from a Syrian regime person is prohibited.
(3)
A person must not directly or indirectly—
(a)
supply or deliver gold, precious metals or diamonds from a third country to a Syrian regime person;
(b)
make gold, precious metals or diamonds available to a Syrian regime person;
(c)
supply or deliver gold, precious metals or diamonds from a Syrian regime person to a place in a non-UK country;
(d)
acquire gold, precious metals or diamonds from a Syrian regime person.
(4)
Paragraphs (1) to (3) are subject to Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).
(5)
A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (3) 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 was a Syrian regime person.
(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.