(1) A person must not directly or indirectly -

(a) make available illegally removed Iraqi cultural property to another person;

(b) acquire illegally removed Iraqi cultural property from another person.

(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.