The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Brokering services: non-UK activity relating to military goods and military technology

29.—(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 military goods from a third country to a place in Russia;

(b) directly or indirectly making military goods available in a third country for direct or indirect supply or delivery—

(i) to a person connected with Russia, or

(ii) to a place in Russia;

(c) directly or indirectly making military technology available in a third country for transfer—

(i) to a person connected with Russia, or

(ii) to a place in Russia;

(d) the transfer of military technology from a place in a third country—

(i) to a person connected with Russia, or

(ii) to a place in Russia;

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

(i) to a person connected with Russia, or

(ii) for use in Russia;

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

(i) to a person connected with Russia, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 28(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 28(3);

(g) directly or indirectly making funds available, in a non-UK country, to a person connected with Russia, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 28(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 28(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 Russia,

(b)

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