(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 anarrangement 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 Sudan.

(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 Sudan.

(4) In this regulation -

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

"technical assistance" means the provision of technical support or any other technical service.