Regulation 74 DPRK ships: transfers of goods

(1) A person must not transfer any goods -

(a) from a ship to a DPRK ship, or

(b) from a DPRK ship to another ship,

if the goods originated in, or are destined for, the DPRK.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 9 (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 to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that -

(a) the goods originated in, or were destined for, the DPRK, or

(b) the ship was a DPRK ship.

(4) In this regulation, a "DPRK ship" means -

(a) a ship registered in the DPRK, or

(b) a ship flying the flag of the DPRK.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation -

(a) a reference to goods which "originate" in the DPRK includes a reference to goods which are manufactured or produced in the DPRK, and

(b) a reference to goods which are "destined" for the DPRK includes a reference to goods which are ultimately destined for the DPRK.