(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide to another person financial services or funds in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whose object or effect is -

(a) the export of illegally removed Syrian cultural property,

(b) the import of illegally removed Syrian cultural property,

(c) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of illegally removed Syrian cultural property, or

(d) the direct or indirect making of illegally removed Syrian cultural property available to a person.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 3 (Exceptions).

(3) A person who contravenes a 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 financial services or funds were provided in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement mentioned in that paragraph.