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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 General

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Application of prohibitions and requirements outside the United Kingdom

    4. 4.Purposes

  3. PART 2 Designation of persons

    1. 5.Power to designate persons

    2. 6.Designation criteria

    3. 7.Interpretation of regulation 6

    4. 8.Notification and publicity where designation power used

    5. 9.Confidential information in certain cases where designation power used

  4. PART 3 Finance

    1. CHAPTER 1 Asset-freeze etc

      1. 10.Meaning of “designated person” in Chapter 1 of Part 3

      2. 11.Asset-freeze in relation to designated persons

      3. 12.Making funds available to designated persons

      4. 13.Making funds available for benefit of designated persons

      5. 14.Making economic resources available to designated persons

      6. 15.Making economic resources available for benefit of designated persons

    2. CHAPTER 2 Investment, financial services and financial markets

      1. 16.UK credit or financial institutions: accounts and correspondent banking relationships etc

      2. 17.Opening of, or taking up of business by, a representative office, branch or subsidiary of Syrian credit or financial institution

      3. 18.Acquisition or extension of ownership interest by Syrian credit or financial institution

      4. 19.Sale or purchase of bonds

      5. 20.Insurance and reinsurance services

      6. 21.Investments in relation to crude oil and electricity production

    3. CHAPTER 3 Interpretation and further provision

      1. 22.Circumventing etc prohibitions

      2. 23.Interpretation of Part 3

  5. PART 4 Immigration

    1. 24.Immigration

  6. PART 5 Trade

    1. CHAPTER 1 Interpretation

      1. 25.Definitions relating to goods and technology prohibited under Part 5

      2. 26.Definition of “interception and monitoring services”

      3. 27.Interpretation of other expressions used in Part 5

    2. CHAPTER 2 Trade prohibitions relating to export, supply, sale and transfer

      1. 28.Application of prohibitions in Chapter 2 of Part 5

      2. 29.Export prohibition

      3. 30.Supply and delivery prohibition

      4. 31.Prohibition in connection with making goods and technology available

      5. 32.Transfer of technology prohibition

      6. 33.Prohibition relating to the associated provision of technical assistance

      7. 34.Prohibitions relating to the associated provision of financial services and funds

      8. 35.Prohibitions relating to the associated provision of brokering services: non-UK activity

    3. CHAPTER 3 Trade prohibitions relating to import, purchase and transportation

      1. 36.Import of arms and related materiel, crude oil and petroleum products

      2. 37. Acquisition of military goods and technology, crude oil and petroleum products

      3. 38.Transport of military goods, crude oil and petroleum products

      4. 39.Transfer of military technology

      5. 40.Prohibitions relating to the associated provision of financial services and funds

    4. CHAPTER 4 Trade prohibitions relating to particular categories of goods

      1. 41.Bank notes or coinage

      2. 42.Goods prohibitions relating to gold, precious metals or diamonds

      3. 43.Technical assistance relating to gold, precious metals or diamonds

      4. 44.Financial services and funds relating to gold, precious metals or diamonds

      5. 45.Brokering services: non-UK activity relating to gold, precious metals or diamonds

      6. 46.Luxury goods

      7. 47.Electricity production

    5. CHAPTER 5 Interception and monitoring services

      1. 48.Provision of interception and monitoring services

    6. CHAPTER 6 Further provision

      1. 49.Circumventing etc prohibitions

      2. 50.Defences

  7. PART 6 Aircraft

    1. 51.Movement of aircraft

    2. 52.Directions under regulation 51: supplementary

    3. 53.Offences

    4. 54.Interpretation

  8. PART 7 Exceptions and licences

    1. 55.Asset-freeze etc: exceptions from prohibitions

    2. 56.Exceptions relating to insurance and reinsurance services

    3. 57.Exceptions relating to petroleum products

    4. 58.Trade: exceptions from further prohibitions

    5. 59.Aircraft: exceptions from prohibitions

    6. 59A.Exception for authorised conduct in a relevant country

    7. 60.Exception for acts done for purposes of national security or prevention of serious crime

    8. 61.Treasury licences

    9. 62.Trade licences

    10. 63.Aircraft licences

    11. 64.Licences: general provisions

    12. 65.Finance: licensing offences

    13. 66.Trade: licensing offences

    14. 67.Aircraft: licensing offences

    15. 68.Section 8B(1) to (3) of Immigration Act 1971: directions

  9. PART 8 Information and records

    1. 69.Finance: reporting obligations

    2. 70.“Relevant firm”

    3. 71.Finance: powers to request information

    4. 72.Finance: production of documents

    5. 73.Finance: information offences

    6. 74.Trade: application of information powers in CEMA

    7. 75.General trade licences: records

    8. 76.General trade licences: inspection of records

    9. 77.Disclosure of information

    10. 77A.Finance: disclosure to the Treasury

    11. 78.Part 8: supplementary

  10. PART 9 Enforcement

    1. 79.Penalties for offences

    2. 80.Liability of officers of bodies corporate etc

    3. 81.Jurisdiction to try offences

    4. 82.Procedure for offences by unincorporated bodies

    5. 83.Time limit for proceedings for summary offences

    6. 84.Trade enforcement: application of CEMA

    7. 85.Trade offences in CEMA: modification of penalty

    8. 86.Application of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

    9. 87.Monetary penalties

  11. PART 10 Maritime enforcement

    1. 88.Exercise of maritime enforcement powers

    2. 89.Maritime enforcement officers

    3. 90.Power to stop, board, search etc

    4. 91.Seizure power

    5. 92.Restrictions on exercise of maritime enforcement powers

    6. 93.Interpretation of Part 10

  12. PART 11 Supplementary and final provision

    1. 94.Directions under Part 6

    2. 95.Notices

    3. 96.Article 20 of the Export Control Order 2008

    4. 97.Trade: overlapping offences

    5. 98.Amendment to the Syria Council Regulation

    6. 99.Other amendments and revocations

    7. 100.Transitional provision: Treasury licences

    8. 101.Transitional provision: trade licences

    9. 102.Transitional provision: pending applications for trade licences

    10. 103.Transitional Provisions: prior obligations

  13. Signature

  14. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Rules for interpretation of regulation 7(2)

      1. 1.Application of Schedule

      2. 2.Joint interests

      3. 3.Joint arrangements

      4. 4.Calculating shareholdings

      5. 5.Voting rights

      6. 6.In applying regulation 7(2) and this Schedule, the voting rights...

      7. 7.Rights to appoint or remove members of the board

      8. 8.A reference to a board of directors, in the case...

      9. 9.Shares or rights held “indirectly”

      10. 10.Shares held by nominees

      11. 11.Rights treated as held by person who controls their exercise

      12. 12.“Arrangement” includes— (a) any scheme, agreement or understanding, whether or...

      13. 13.Rights exercisable only in certain circumstances etc

      14. 14.Rights attached to shares held by way of security

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Definitions of goods subject to certain trade prohibitions

      1. PART 1 General

        1. 1.Definitions

      2. PART 2 Goods subject to certain trade prohibitions

        1. 2.Aviation fuel and aviation fuel additives

        2. 3.Crude oil and petroleum products

        3. 4.For the purposes of regulation 25(1), “petroleum products” means any...

        4. 5.Goods relating to electricity production

        5. 6.Gold, precious metals or diamonds

        6. 7.Luxury goods

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Goods and technology relating to chemical and biological weapons

      1. PART 1 Certain dual-use goods and dual-use technology

        1. 1.Dual-use goods

        2. 2.Software

        3. 3.Technology

      2. PART 2 Weapons-related chemicals and technology

        1. 4.Chemicals

        2. 5.Software and technology

      3. PART 3 Materials, other chemicals and related-technology

        1. 6.Chemicals

        2. 7.Any of the following chemicals at 90% concentration or greater—...

        3. 8.Materials

        4. 9.Full face-mask air-purifying and air-supplying respirators, other than any thing...

        5. 10.Class ⅠⅠ biological safety cabinets or isolators with similar performance...

        6. 11.Batch centrifuges with a rotor capacity of 4 litres or...

        7. 12.(1) Fermenters capable of cultivation of pathogenic micro-organisms or viruses...

        8. 13.(1) Conventional or turbulent air-flow clean-air rooms and self-contained fan-HEPA...

        9. 14.(1) Any of the following chemical manufacturing facilities, equipment and...

        10. 15.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), laboratory equipment for the analysis...

        11. 16.Software and technology

      4. PART 4 Rules for interpretation

        1. 17.Principal element

        2. 18.Definition of Dual-Use Codes

        3. 19.Interpretation

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Interception and monitoring goods and interception and monitoring technology

      1. 1.Interception and monitoring equipment

      2. 2.Any software which can perform any of the functions described...

      3. 3.Other software and other technology

      4. 4.Interpretation

      5. 5.Acronyms and abbreviations used in this Schedule

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Internal repression goods and internal repression technology

      1. 1.Firearms and related goods

      2. 2.Simulators for training persons to use firearms.

      3. 3.Bombs and grenades.

      4. 4.Vehicles

      5. 5.Explosive substances and related goods

      6. 6.Linear cutting explosive charges.

      7. 7.The following explosives and related substances— (a) amatol;

      8. 8.Other goods

      9. 9.Night vision equipment.

      10. 10.Thermal imaging equipment.

      11. 11.Image intensifier tubes.

      12. 12.Razor barbed wire.

      13. 13.The following types of knives— (a) knives that are designed...

      14. 14.Production equipment

      15. 15.Software and technology

      16. 16.Any technology which is specially designed for the development, production...

      17. 17.Interpretation

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      Treasury licences: purposes

      1. PART 1 Interpretation

        1. 1.Interpretation

      2. PART 2 Financial sanctions in Chapter 1 of Part 3(asset-freeze etc)

        1. 2.Basic needs

        2. 3.Legal services

        3. 4.Maintenance of frozen funds and economic resources

        4. 5.Extraordinary expenses

        5. 6.Pre-existing judicial decisions etc

        6. 7.Humanitarian assistance activities etc

        7. 8.Diplomatic missions etc

        8. 9.Human safety or environmental protection

        9. 10.Education, professional training or academic research

        10. 11.Essential energy needs

        11. 12.Evacuations

        12. 13.Chemical Weapons Convention

        13. 14.Extraordinary situation

        14. 15.Prior obligations

        15. 16.Central and Commercial Banks of Syria

      3. PART 3 Financial sanctions in Chapter 2 of Part 3 (investment, financial services and financial markets)

        1. 17.Assisting the civilian population in Syria

  15. Explanatory Note

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