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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2024 - onwards
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Regulation 46Z16N Technical assistance relating to diamonds and diamond jewellery

(1) A person must not directly or indirectly provide technical assistance relating to -

(a) the import of diamonds or diamond jewellery which -

(i) originate in Russia, or

(ii) are consigned from Russia;

(b) the direct or indirect acquisition of diamonds or diamond jewellery which -

(i) originate in Russia, or

(ii) are located in Russia; or

(c) the direct or indirect supply or delivery of diamonds or diamond jewellery from a place in Russia to a third country.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).

(3) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence, but it is a defence for a person charged with an offence of contravening -

(a) paragraph (1)(a) to show that the person did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the technical assistance related to an import described in that paragraph;