S.I. No. 357/1999 - European Communities (Ban on The Supply To Indonesia of Equipment Which Might Be Used For Internal Repression Or Terrorism) Regulations, 1999
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 purposes of giving effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 2158/1999 of 11 October, 19991 , hereby make the following Regulations: | ||||||||
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Ban on the Supply to Indonesia of Equipment which might be used for Internal Repression and Terrorism) Regulations, 1999. | ||||||||
(2) These Regulations shall cease to have effect on 17 January 2000. | ||||||||
2. A person who contravenes Article 1.1 of the Council Regulation (EC) No. 2158/1999 of 11 October, 19991 , 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. | ||||||||
3. 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 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. | ||||||||
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EXPLANATORY NOTE | ||||||||
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) | ||||||||
The effect of this Order is to provide for penalties for infringements of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2158/1999 which introduced a ban on the supply to Indonesia of equipment which might be used for internal repression or terrorism. | ||||||||
