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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 23 Supply and delivery of illegally removed Iraqi cultural property

(1) A person must not directly or indirectly supply or deliver illegally removed Iraqi cultural property from a third country to any other third country.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 5 (Exceptions and licensing).

(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 goods were illegally removed Iraqi cultural property.

(4) In this regulation, "third country" means a country that is not the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man.