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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards
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Regulation 22 Enabling or facilitating conduct of armed hostilities

(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide to, or for the benefit of, a designated person -

(a) technical assistance,

(b) financial services or funds, or

(c) brokering services in relation to an arrangement whose object or effect is to provide, in a non-UK country, technical assistance, financial services or funds,

where such provision enables or facilitates the conduct of armed hostilities.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 6 (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 -

(a) P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the person to whom, or for whose benefit, the technical assistance, financial services or funds or brokering services were provided was a designated person; or