Brokering services: non-UK activity relating to infrastructure-related goods and goods from [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory] U.K.
53.—(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 import of goods which originate in [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory];
(b)the direct or indirect supply or delivery of infrastructure-related goods from a third country to a place in [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory],
(c)directly or indirectly making infrastructure-related goods available in a third country for direct or indirect supply or delivery—
(i)to a person connected with [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory], or
(ii)to a place in [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory],
(d)the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of technical assistance relating to infrastructure-related goods—
(i)to a person connected with [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory], or
(ii)for use in [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory],
(e)the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of financial services—
(i)to a person connected with [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory], where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 52(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 52(3) in relation to infrastructure-related goods,
(f)directly or indirectly making funds available, in a non-UK country, to a person connected with [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory], where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with which arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 52(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 52(3) in relation to infrastructure-related goods.
(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 country that is not the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or [F1non-government controlled Ukrainian territory].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 53 substituted (30.3.2022 at 5.00 p.m.) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/395), regs. 1(2), 15(b)(vii)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 53 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)