PART 5Trade

CHAPTER 5Interception and monitoring services

Provision of interception and monitoring servicesI148

1

A person must not directly or indirectly provide interception and monitoring services to, or for the benefit of, the Syrian regime.

2

Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).

3

A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence (ā€œPā€) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the services were provided to, or for the benefit of, the Syrian regime.