Control of Exports Act 2023

PART 6

Enforcement

Interpretation for Part 6

55. (1) In this Part—

“authorised officer” means a person appointed under section 56 to be an authorised officer;

“compliance notice” means a compliance notice given under section 61 ; “condemnation proceedings” has the meaning given to it by section 65 (1); “notice of claim” has the meaning given to it by section 64 (6); “premises” includes vehicle, vessel, ship and railway carriage;

“specified date” means—

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the date specified in the compliance notice, which shall not be earlier than the end of the period within which an appeal may be brought under section 62 , or

(b) where an appeal is brought under section 62 , on the later of the date on which the compliance notice is confirmed on appeal or the appeal is withdrawn, or the date specified in the compliance notice as the date on which it is to come into effect;

“vehicle” means any conveyance in or by which any person or thing, or both, is or are, as the case may be, transported which is designed for use on land, in water or in the air, or in more than one of those ways, and includes—

(a) a part of a vehicle,

(b) an article designed as a vehicle but not capable of functioning as a vehicle, and

(c) any container, trailer, tank or any other thing which is or may be used for the storage of goods in the course of carriage and is designed or constructed to be placed on, in, or attached to, any vehicle.

(2) A reference in this Part to a compliance notice shall, if the compliance notice has been amended under section 61 (4), be construed as a reference to the compliance notice as so amended.