SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Internal repression goods and internal repression technology

Regulation 19

Firearms and related goods

1

Firearms, ammunition and related accessories, as follows—

a

firearms;

b

ammunition specially designed for firearms;

c

weapon-sights.

2

Simulators for training persons to use firearms.

3

Bombs and grenades.

Vehicles4

1

Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the following types of vehicles—

a

vehicles equipped with a water cannon, specially designed or modified for the purpose of riot control;

b

vehicles specially designed or modified to be electrified to repel boarders;

c

vehicles specially designed or modified to remove barricades, including construction equipment with ballistic protection;

d

vehicles specially designed for the transport or transfer of prisoners or detainees;

e

vehicles specially designed to deploy mobile barriers.

2

Components for the vehicles specified in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (e) that have been designed for the purposes of riot control.

3

Vehicles that might otherwise fall within sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (e) are not internal repression goods if they are specially designed for the purposes of fire-fighting.

4

For the purposes of this paragraph, “vehicle” includes a trailer.

Explosive substances and related goods

5

1

Subject to sub-paragraph (3), equipment and devices specially designed to initiate explosions by electrical or non-electrical means, including—

a

firing sets;

b

detonators;

c

igniters;

d

boosters;

e

detonating cord.

2

Subject to sub-paragraph (3), components that have been specially designed for any thing mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).

3

Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to any thing that has been specially designed for a specific commercial use.

4

For the purpose of sub-paragraph (3), a “specific commercial use” means the actuation or operation by explosive means of other equipment or devices the function of which is not the creation of explosions, including—

a

car air-bag inflaters;

b

electric-surge arresters;

c

fire sprinkler actuators.

6

Linear cutting explosive charges.

7

The following explosives and related substances—

a

amatol;

b

nitrocellulose (containing more than 12.5 % nitrogen);

c

nitroglycol;

d

pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN);

e

picryl chloride;

f

2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT).

Other goods

8

1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the following equipment designed for the protection of a person—

a

body armour providing ballistic or stabbing protection or both;

b

helmets providing ballistic or fragmentation protection, or both, including anti-riot helmets;

c

anti-riot shields and ballistic shields.

2

Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to—

a

any thing specially designed to protect persons for the following purposes—

i

participation in competitive sport;

ii

ensuring safety at work;

b

any thing mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b) when accompanying a person for that person’s own protection.

9

Night vision equipment.

10

Thermal imaging equipment.

11

Image intensifier tubes.

12

Razor barbed wire.

13

The following types of knives—

a

knives that are designed for use by military personnel (military knives);

b

knives that are designed for use as a weapon for inflicting injury (combat knives);

c

bayonets with blade lengths in excess of 10 cm.

Production equipment14

Any equipment which is specially designed or modified for the development or for one or more of the production phases of any item mentioned in this Schedule.

Software and technology

15

Any software which is specially designed for the simulators mentioned in paragraph 2.

16

Any technology which is specially designed for the development, production or use of any item mentioned in this Schedule.

Interpretation17

1

In this Schedule, “firearm” means any portable barrelled weapon that expels, is designed to expel or may be converted to expel, a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of a combustible propellant.

2

For the purposes of this Schedule, the following terms have the meaning given to them in the Dual-Use Regulation—

  • “development”;

  • “production”;

  • “software”;

  • “technology”;

  • “use”.