Brokering services: non-UK activity relating to illegally removed Iraqi cultural propertyU.K.
26.—(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 illegally removed Iraqi cultural property from a third country to any other third country,
(b)the direct or indirect making available of illegally removed Iraqi cultural property to a person in a third country, or
(c)the direct or indirect provision, in a non-UK country, of financial services or funds, where arrangement A, or any other arrangement in connection with arrangement A is entered into, is an arrangement mentioned in regulation 25(1).
(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 5 (Exceptions and licensing).
(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 to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the brokering services were provided in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.
(4) In this regulation—
(a)“non-UK country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom;
(b)“third country” means a country that is not the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 26 not in force at made date, see reg. 1(2)
I2Reg. 26 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 14(2)