(1) A person who holds or controls illegally removed Syrian cultural property must secure its transfer to a constable.

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

(3) A person who fails to comply with the requirement in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with that offence ("P") to show that P did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods held or controlled by P were illegally removed Syrian cultural property.