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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2006 No. 310

OVERSEAS TERRITORIES

The Uzbekistan (Restrictive Measures) (Overseas Territories) Order 2006

  Made 14th February 2006 
  Laid before Parliament 15th February 2006 
  Coming into force 16th February 2006 

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of February 2006

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in Her by section 112 of the Saint Helena Act 1833[1], the British Settlements Acts 1887 and 1945[2], and of all other powers enabling Her to do so, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is ordered, as follows:

Citation, commencement and extent
     1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Uzbekistan (Restrictive Measures) (Overseas Territories) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 16th February 2006.

    (2) Articles 3, 4 and 5 shall apply to any person within the Territory and to any person elsewhere who is:

Interpretation
    
2. —(1) In this Order, the following expressions have, except where otherwise expressly provided, the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say —

    (2) For the purpose of identifying a "listed person" referred to in paragraph (1), the Governor shall cause a notice containing the names and other particulars of such listed persons to be published in the Gazette of the Territory as necessary from time to time.

RESTRICTED GOODS, ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING

Supply of restricted goods
    
3. —(1) Any person who, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Governor under this article or article 4,

restricted goods to any person or place in Uzbekistan, shall be guilty of an offence under this Order unless he proves that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the goods in question were to be supplied or delivered to a person or place in Uzbekistan.

    (2) Nothing in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) shall apply where the supply or delivery of the goods to the person concerned is authorised by a licence granted by the Governor under this article.

Exportation of restricted goods to Uzbekistan
    
4. —(1) Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Governor under this article, restricted goods are prohibited to be exported from the Territory to any destination in Uzbekistan or to any destination for the purpose of delivery, directly or indirectly, to or to the order of any person in Uzbekistan.

    (2) Any restricted goods which are exported or attempted to be exported shall be liable to forfeiture.

    (3) Any person knowingly concerned in the exportation or attempted exportation of such goods shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

    (4) In any case where a person would, apart from this paragraph, be guilty of an offence under paragraph (3) and of an offence under article 3(1), he shall not be guilty of the offence under paragraph (3).

Provision of assistance, advice or training related to military activities
    
5. Any person who, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Governor under this article, directly or indirectly provides to any person, entity or body in, or for use in, Uzbekistan any assistance, advice or training related to military activities or to the provision, manufacture, maintenance or use of any restricted goods shall be guilty of an offence under this Order, unless he proves that he did not know and had no reason to suppose that the assistance, advice or training in question was to be provided to a person, entity or body in, or for use in, Uzbekistan.

Use of ships, aircraft and vehicles: restricted goods
    
6. —(1) Without prejudice to the generality of article 3, no ship or aircraft to which this article applies, and no vehicle within the Territory, shall be used for the carriage of restricted goods if the carriage is, or forms part of, carriage from any place outside Uzbekistan to any destination therein.

    (2) This article applies to ships registered in the Territory, to aircraft so registered and to any other ship or aircraft that is for the time being chartered to any person who is —

    (3) If any ship, aircraft or vehicle is used in contravention of paragraph (1) then —

    (4) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall apply when the supply or delivery or exportation from the Territory of the goods concerned to Uzbekistan was authorised by a licence granted by the Governor under article 3 or 4.

    (5) Nothing in this article shall be construed so as to prejudice any other provision of law prohibiting or restricting the use of ships, aircraft or vehicles.

GENERAL

Customs powers to demand evidence of destination which goods reach
    
7. Any exporter or any shipper of restricted goods which have been exported from the Territory shall, if so required by the Governor, furnish within such time as the Governor may allow, proof to the Governor's satisfaction that the goods have reached either —

and, if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Order unless he proves that he did not consent to or connive at the goods reaching any destination other than a destination mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b).

Offences in connection with applications for licences, conditions attaching to licences, etc
    
8. —(1) If, for the purposes of obtaining any licence under this Order, any person makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

    (2) Any person who has done any act under the authority of a licence granted by the Governor under this Order and who fails to comply with any conditions attaching to that licence shall be guilty of an offence under this Order:

Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under this paragraph where he proves that the condition with which he failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his consent, by the Governor after the doing of the act authorised by the licence.

Declaration as to goods: power of search
    
9. —(1) Any person who is about to leave the Territory shall, if he is required to do so by any authorised person:

    (2) Any authorised person, and any person acting under his direction, may search that person for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has with him any such goods as aforesaid, provided that no person shall be searched in pursuance of this paragraph except by a person of the same sex.

    (3) Any person who without reasonable excuse refuses to make a declaration, or fails to produce any goods or refuses to allow himself to be searched in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this article, shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

    (4) Any person who under the provisions of this article makes a declaration which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly makes any declaration which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

    (5) Before or on exercising any power conferred by this article, an authorised person shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority.

    (6) In this article, "authorised person" means any person authorised by the Governor for the purpose of this article either generally or in a particular case.

Investigation, etc. of suspected ships
    
10. —(1) Where any authorised officer has reason to suspect that any ship to which article 6 applies has been or is being or is about to be used in contravention of paragraph (1) of that article:

    (2) The further action referred to in paragraph (1)(c) is either:

    (3) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 13(3), where:

any such officer may take such steps as appear to him to be necessary to secure compliance with that request and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may for that purpose enter upon, or authorise entry upon, that ship and use, or authorise the use of, reasonable force.

    (4) Before or on exercising any power conferred by this article, an authorised officer shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority.

    (5) In this article "authorised officer" means:

Investigation, etc. of suspected aircraft
    
11. —(1) Where any authorised person has reason to suspect that any aircraft to which article 6 applies has been or is being or is about to be used in contravention of paragraph (1) of that article:

    (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 13(3), where any authorised person has reason to suspect that any request that has been made under paragraph (1)(c) may not be complied with, he may take such steps as appear to him to be necessary to secure compliance with that request and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may for that purpose:

    (3) Before or on exercising any power conferred by this article, an authorised person shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority.

    (4) In this article, "authorised person" means any person authorised by the Governor for the purpose of this article either generally or in a particular case.

Investigation, etc. of suspected vehicles
    
12. —(1) Where any authorised person has reason to suspect that any vehicle in the Territory has been or is being or is about to be used in contravention of article 6:

    (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 13(3), where any authorised person has reason to suspect that any request that has been made under paragraph (1)(c) may not be complied with, he may take such steps as appear to him to be necessary to secure compliance with that request and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may for that purpose:

    (3) Before or on exercising any power conferred by this article, an authorised person shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority.

    (4) In this article, "authorised person" means any person authorised by the Governor for the purpose of this article either generally or in a particular case.

Provisions supplementary to articles 10 to 12
    
13. —(1) No information furnished or document produced by any person in pursuance of a request made under article 10, 11 or 12 shall be disclosed except:

    (2) Any power conferred by article 10, 11 or 12 to request the furnishing of information or the production of a document or of cargo for inspection shall include a power to specify whether information should be furnished orally or in writing and in what form and to specify the time by which and the place in which the information should be furnished or the document or cargo produced for inspection.

    (3) Each of the following persons shall be guilty of an offence under this Order, that is to say:

    (4) Nothing in articles 10 to 13 shall be construed so as to prejudice any other provision of law conferring powers or imposing restrictions or enabling restrictions to be imposed with respect to ships, aircraft or vehicles.

Obtaining of evidence and information
    
14. The provisions of Schedule 4 shall have effect in order to facilitate the obtaining, by or on behalf of the Governor:

Penalties and Proceedings
    
15. —(1) Any person guilty of an offence under article 3(1), 4(3), 5 or 6(3) shall be liable:

    (2) Any person guilty of an offence under article 13(3)(b)(ii) or paragraph 5(b) or (d) of Schedule 4 shall be liable —

    (3) Any person guilty of an offence under article 8(1) or (2) or article 9(4) shall be liable:

    (4) Any person guilty of an offence under article 13(3)(a), (b)(i) or (c), or paragraph 5(a) or (c) of Schedule 4 shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent or to both.

    (5) Any person guilty of an offence under article 7 or 9(3) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent.

    (6) Where any body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

    (7) Summary proceedings for an offence under this Order, being an offence alleged to have been committed outside the Territory, may be instituted at any time not later than 12 months from the date on which the person charged first enters the Territory after committing the offence.

    (8) Proceedings against any person for an offence under this Order may be taken before the appropriate court in the Territory having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.

    (9) No proceedings for an offence under this Order shall be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the principal public officer of the Territory having responsibility for criminal prosecutions:

Provided that this paragraph shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence, or the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence, notwithstanding that the necessary consent to the institution of proceedings for the offence has not been obtained.

Exercise of powers of the Governor
    
16. —(1) The Governor may to such extent and subject to such restrictions and conditions as he may think proper, delegate or authorise the delegation of any of his powers under this Order (other than the power to give authority under Schedule 4 to apply for a search warrant) to any person, or class or description of persons, approved by him, and references in this Order to the Governor shall be construed accordingly.

    (2) Any licences granted under this Order shall be in writing and may be either general or special, may be subject to or without conditions, may be limited so as to expire on a specified date unless renewed and may be varied or revoked by the authority that granted them.

Miscellaneous
    
17. —(1) Any provision of this Order which prohibits the doing of a thing except under the authority of a licence granted by the Governor shall not have effect in relation to any such thing done anywhere other than the Territory provided that it is duly authorised.

    (2) A thing is duly authorised for the purpose of paragraph (1) if it is done under the authority of a licence granted in accordance with any law in force in the place where it is done (being a law substantially corresponding to the relevant provisions of this Order) by the authority competent in that behalf under that law.


A.K.Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULE 1
Article 1(1)(a)


TERRITORIES TO WHICH THIS ORDER EXTENDS


Anguilla

British Antarctic Territory

British Indian Ocean Territory

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

Montserrat

Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

St. Helena and Dependencies

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus

Turks and Caicos Islands

Virgin Islands



SCHEDULE 2
Article 1(1)(b)


APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 15 TO THE SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS OF AKROTIRI AND DHEKELIA IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS


     1. —(1) Any person who commits an offence under article 3(1), 4(3), 5 or 6(3), or paragraph 5(b) or (d) of Schedule 4, shall be liable on conviction:

     2. Any person who commits an offence under article 8(1) or (2), 9(4), or 13(3)(b)(ii) is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both.

     3. Any person who commits an offence under article 13(3)(a), (b)(i) or (c), or paragraph (5)(a) or (c) of Schedule 4, is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or to both.

     4. Any person who commits an offence under article 7 or 9(3) is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent.

     5. Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

     6. Proceedings for a misdemeanour under this Order, being an offence alleged to have been committed outside the Territory, may be instituted at any time not later than 12 months from the date on which the person charged first enters the Territory after committing the offence.

     7. Proceedings against any person for an offence under this Order may be taken before the appropriate court in the Territory having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.

     8. No proceedings for an offence under this Order shall be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the principal public officer of the Territory having responsibility for criminal prosecutions:

Provided that this paragraph shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence, or the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence, notwithstanding that the necessary consent to the institution of proceedings for the offence has not been obtained.



SCHEDULE 3
Article 2(1)


EQUIPMENT THAT MIGHT BE USED FOR INTERNAL REPRESSION


The list below does not comprise articles that have been specially designed or modified for military use.

     1. Helmets providing ballistic protection, anti-riot helmets, anti-riot shields and ballistic shields and specially designed components therefore.

     2. Specially designed fingerprint equipment.

     3. Power controlled searchlights.

     4. Construction equipment provided with ballistic protection.

     5. Hunting knives.

     6. Specially designed production equipment to make shotguns.

     7. Ammunition hand-loading equipment.

     8. Communications intercept devices.

     9. Solid-state optical detectors.

     10. Image-intensifier tubes.

     11. Telescopic weapon sights.

     12. Smooth-bore weapons and related ammunition, other than those specially designed for military use, and specially designed components therefor; except: signal pistols; air- and cartridge-powered guns designed as industrial tools or humane animal stunners.

     13. Simulators for training in the use of firearms and specially designed or modified components and accessories therefor.

     14. Bombs and grenades, other than those specially designed for military use, and specially designed components therefor.

     15. Body armour, other than those manufactured to military standards or specifications, and specially designed components therefor.

     16. All-wheel-drive utility vehicles capable of off-road use that have been manufactured or fitted with ballistic protection, and profiled armour for such vehicles.

     17. Water cannon and specially designed or modified components therefor.

     18. Vehicles equipped with a water cannon.

     19. Vehicles specially designed or modified to be electrified to repel boarders and components therefor specially designed or modified for that purpose.

     20. Acoustic devices represented by the manufacturer or supplier as suitable for riot-control purposes, and specially designed components therefor.

     21. Leg-irons, gang-chains, shackles and electric-shock belts, specially designed for restraining human beings; except: handcuffs for which the maximum overall dimension including chain does not exceed 240 mm when locked.

     22. Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an incapacitating substance (such as tear gas or pepper sprays), and specially designed components therefor.

     23. Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an electric shock (including electric-shocks batons, electric shock shields, stun guns and electric shock dart guns (lasers) and components therefor specially designed or modified for that purpose.

     24. Electronic equipment capable of detecting concealed explosives and specially designed components therefor; except: TV or X-ray inspection equipment.

     25. Electronic jamming equipment specially designed to prevent the detonation by radio remote control of improvised devices and specially designed components therefor.

     26. Equipment and devices specially designed to initiate explosions by electrical or non-electrical means, including firing sets, detonators, igniters, boosters and detonating cord, and specially designed components therefor; except: those specially designed for a specific commercial use consisting of the actuation or operation by explosive means of other equipment or devices the function of which is not the creation of explosions (e.g., car air-bag inflaters, electric-surge arresters or fire sprinkler actuators).

     27. Equipment and devices designed for explosive ordnance disposal; except: bomb blankets; containers designed for folding objects known to be, or suspected of being improvised explosive devices.

     28. Night vision and thermal imaging equipment and image intensifier tubes or solid state sensors therefor.

     29. Linear cutting explosive charges.

     30. Explosives and related substances as follows: amatol; nitrocellulose (containing more than 12,5 % nitrogen); nitroglycol; pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN); picryl chloride; tinitorphenylmethylnitramine (tetryl); 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT).

     31. Software specially designed and technology required for all listed items.



SCHEDULE 4
Article 14


EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION


     1. —(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Order, or any provision of any other law, the Governor may request any person in or resident in the Territory to furnish to him any information in his possession or control, or to produce to him any document in his possession or control, which he may require for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Order; and any person to whom such a request is made shall comply with it within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the request.

    (2) Nothing in the foregoing sub-paragraph shall be taken to require any person who has acted as counsel or solicitor for any person to furnish or produce any privileged information or document in his possession in that capacity.

    (3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under paragraph 5 of this Schedule of failing to furnish information or produce a document when requested so to do under this paragraph, the court may make an order requiring him, within such period as may be specified in the order, to furnish the information or produce the document.

    (4) The power conferred by this paragraph to request any person to produce documents shall include power to take copies of or extracts from any document so produced and to request that person, or, where that person is a body corporate, any other person who is a present or past officer of, or is employed by, the body corporate, to provide an explanation of any of them.

    (5) The furnishing of any information or the production of any document under this paragraph shall not be treated as a breach of any restriction imposed by statute or otherwise.

     2. —(1) If any judge, justice of the peace or magistrate is satisfied by information on oath given by any police officer, constable or person authorised by the Governor to act for the purposes of this paragraph either generally or in a particular case:

he may grant a search warrant authorising any police officer or constable, together with any other persons named in the warrant and any other police officers or constables, to enter the premises specified in the information or, as the case may be, any premises upon which the vehicle, ship or aircraft so specified may be, at any time within one month from the date of the warrant and to search the premises, or as the case may be, the vehicle, ship or aircraft.

    (2) Any authorised person who has entered any premises or any vehicle, ship or aircraft in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) may do any or all of the following things:

    (3) Any information required in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) which is contained in a computer and is accessible from the premises or from any vehicle, ship or aircraft must be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible.

    (4) A police officer or constable lawfully on the premises or on the vehicle, ship or aircraft by virtue of a warrant issued under sub-paragraph (1) may —

Provided that no person shall be searched in pursuance of this sub-paragraph except by a person of the same sex.

    (5) Where, by virtue of this paragraph a person is empowered to enter any premises, vehicle, ship or aircraft he may use such force as is reasonably necessary for that purpose.

    (6) Any documents or articles of which possession is taken under this paragraph may be retained for a period of three months or, if within that period there are commenced any proceedings for an offence referred to in this paragraph to which they are relevant, until the conclusion of those proceedings.

     3. A person authorised by the Governor to exercise any power for the purposes of this Schedule shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority before exercising that power.

     4. No information furnished or document produced (including any copy of an extract made of any document produced) by a person in pursuance of a request made under this Schedule and no document seized under paragraph 2(2) shall be disclosed except —

     5. Any person who –

shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order applies to each of the British overseas territories listed in Schedule 1. It gives effect in these overseas territories to Council Common Position 2005/792/CFSP adopted by the Council of the European Union on 14th November 2005 which prohibits (a) the delivery or supply of arms and related material to Uzbekistan, from Members States' territories, by their nationals, or using their flagged vessels and aircraft; (b) the provision of technical assistance, brokering services and other services related to military activities and to the provision, manufacture, maintenance and use of arms and related material to any person, entity or body in, or for use in Uzbekistan; and (c) the provision of financing or financial assistance related to military activities to any person, entity or body, in or for use in, Uzbekistan.


Notes:

[1] 1833 c. 85.back

[2] 1887 c. 54 and 1945 c.7.back



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Prepared 20 February 2006


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