Hong Kong Regulations

UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS (CÔTE D’IVOIRE) REGULATION 2006 - SECT 7

Prohibition against provision of certain advice, assistance or training to persons connected with Côte d’Ivoire

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

Provision of advice, assistance or training

(1) A person shall not provide to a person connected with Côte d’ Ivoire
any advice related to military activities.

(2) Except under the authority of a licence granted under section  13 (1) or
(2), a person shall not provide to a person connected with Côte d’ Ivoire
any assistance or training related to military activities.

(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is
liable—

   (a)  on conviction on indictment to a fine and to imprisonment for 7 years;
        or

   (b)  on summary conviction to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6
        months.

(4) In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (3), it is a defence
for a person charged to prove that he did not know and had no reason to
believe—

   (a)  that the advice, assistance or training concerned was to be provided
        to a person connected with Côte d’Ivoire; or

   (b)  that the advice, assistance or training concerned related to military
        activities.

(5) This section applies to—

   (a)  a person within the HKSAR; and

   (b)  a person acting elsewhere who is—

        (i)    both a Hong Kong permanent resident and a Chinese national; or

        (ii)   a body incorporated or constituted under the law of the HKSAR.