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

(a) technical assistance,

(b) armed personnel,

(c) financial services or funds, or

(d) brokering services 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 Somalia.

(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, armed personnel, financial services or funds or brokering services were provided was a designated person, or