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S.I. No. 33/1998 - European Communities (Prohibition of the Supply of Certain Goods and Services To Angola) Regulations, 1998.

S.I. No. 33 of 1998.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (PROHIBITION OF THE SUPPLY OF CERTAIN GOODS AND SERVICES TO ANGOLA) REGULATIONS, 1998.

I, MARY HARNEY, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 2229/971 of 30 October 1997, hereby make the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Prohibition of the Supply of Certain Goods and Services to Angola) Regulations, 1998.

2. The "Council Regulation" means Council Regulation (EC) No. 2229/971 of 30 October 1997.

1 OJ No. L 309 of 12.11.1997, p.1.

3. A person shall not contravene the Council Regulation.

4. A person who contravenes Regulation 3 of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding£1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

5. Where an offence under these Regulations is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of any person, being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.

6. An offence under these Regulations (other than an offence for contravening Article 1.3 and 1.4 of the Council Regulation) may be prosecuted by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, and an offence under these Regulations for contravening Article 1.3 and 1.4 of the Council Regulation may be prosecuted by the Minister for Public Enterprise.

7. The European Communities (Prohibition of the Supply of Certain Goods to UNITA) Regulations, 1993 ( S.I. No. 383 of 1993 ), is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 4th day of February, 1998.

MARY HARNEY,

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to prohibit certain trade with UNITA as provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No. 2229/97, and to provide for penalties for infringement of the prohibition.