(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide -

(a) technical assistance,

(b) armed personnel,

(c) financial services or funds, or

(d) brokering services provided in relation to an arrangement whose object or effect is to provide, in a non-UK country, anything mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c),

where such provision enables or facilitates the conduct of armed hostilities in the Central African Republic.

(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 to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the provision as mentioned in paragraph (1) would enable or facilitate the conduct of armed hostilities in the Central African Republic.

(4) In this regulation -

"non-UK country" means a country that is not the United Kingdom;