The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

[F1Brokering services relating to [F2G7 dependency and further goods] U.K.

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46Z2.(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide brokering services to a person connected with Russia in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement (“arrangement A”) whose object or effect is—

(a)the export of [F3G7 dependency and further goods];

(b)the direct or indirect supply or delivery of [F3G7 dependency and further goods];

(c)directly or indirectly making [F3G7 dependency and further goods] available to a person;

(d)the direct or indirect provision of technical assistance relating to [F3G7 dependency and further goods];

(e)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 46Z1(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 46Z1(3);

(f)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 46Z1(1); or

(g)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 46Z1(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.

[F4(4) In this regulation, “non-UK country” means a country which is not the United Kingdom.]]