(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance relating to military goods or military technology to a non-governmental person operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 6 (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 the offence of contravening paragraph (1) ("P") to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the non-governmental person was operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.