17.—(1) A person must not directly or indirectly make military goods or military technology available to, or for the benefit of, a designated person.
(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 5 (Exceptions and licences).
(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 (“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 or technology were made available was a designated person.