PART 5Trade
CHAPTER 3Dual-use goods, dual-use technology and related activities
Making dual-use goods and dual-use technology available34.
(1)
A person must not—
(a)
directly or indirectly make available, to a person connected with Russia, dual-use goods for military use or dual-use technology for military use;
(b)
directly or indirectly make available dual-use goods for military use in Russia or dual-use technology for military use in Russia;
(c)
directly or indirectly make dual-use goods available to or for use by a person mentioned in Schedule 4.
(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—
(a)
it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (1)(a)(“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that—
(i)
the person was connected with Russia, or
(ii)
the goods or technology were for military use;
(b)
it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (1)(b) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods or technology were for military use in Russia;
(c)
it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening paragraph (1)(c) (“P”) to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom or for whose benefit the goods were made available was a person mentioned in Schedule 4.