The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1991
UK Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 2666 — creates 5 criminal offences.
- Made
- 25 November 1991
- In force from
- 31 December 1991
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Corporate, financial services, company law, employment, charity, electoral and tax
- Made under
- Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order revokes and replaces the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989 and the amendments thereto. The changes (apart from minor or drafting changes) it effects are as follows:– 1. Export control is lifted on–equipment and technology for the production of superalloys; machinery and equipment for the manufacture of hydrofoil, surface effect and SWATH vessel structures and components; cobalt based alloys; nickel based alloys; hydraulic fluids which contain mineral oils and greases; silicone fluids and greases; synthetic lubricating oils and greases; equipment and technology for metal powder compaction; and equipment specially designed for the manufacture or testing of memory storage or switching devices or testing of materials composed of certain crystals or their assemblies; reduced in scope for–technology for certain numerically controlled machine tools and computer control units; water-screw propeller systems employing pre-swirl and post-swirl techniques; certain magnetic metals; certain fluorinated compounds; certain optical fibre cables; certain signal and spectrum analysers; certain electronic vacuum tubes (valves); certain integrated circuits; digital to analogue converters; analogue magnetic tape recorders and magnetic tape; certain superconductive electromagnets; certain electronic devices manufactured from superconductive materials; zirconium foil or strip; and lithium metal, hydrides and alloys; extended in scope on–test equipment for aircraft and gas turbine engines; diesel engine technology; non-fluorinated polymeric substances; toxicological agents and tear gas; special and other fissile materials for nuclear heat sources; plant, equipment and components for the separation of isotopes of natural and depleted uranium and other fissile materials; equipment and components for plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements; and maraging steels; extended in scope to include technological documents relating to–bombs, torpedoes, rockets and missiles; weapon fire control systems; tanks and military vehicles; military aircraft and helicopters; electronic equipment for military use; production equipment for military goods; military propellants; production of fibres; vibration test equipment; production equipment for compasses, gyroscopes and accelerometers; space-craft and launch vehicles; navigation, direction finding and radar equipment; telemetering and telecontrol equipment; certain photosensitive components; materials specially designed and manufactured for use as absorbers of electromagnetic waves; certain integrated circuits; gravity meters; and base materials; redefined or clarified in relation to–natural and depleted uranium; hafnium; tritium; equipment and components for plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements; nuclear reactors; plant for production of heavy water, deuterium or deuterium compounds; plant for the production of uranium hexafluoride; equipment for the separation of isotopes of lithium; frequency changers (converters or inverters); inertial navigation systems, gyroscopes and accelerometers; analogue to digital converters; metal alloys and metal powders; equipment and technology for the production of metal alloys and metal powders; fibrous and filamentary materials; pyrolitic deposition technology; isostatic presses; and chemical vapour deposition (CVD) furnaces; introduced for–certain quartz crystals (for equipment specified in ML4); electrical pulsers capable of precisely timed multiple initiations of explosives; wet proofed platinized catalysts for promoting hydrogen isotopes exchange; equipment for the handling or processing of uranium hexafluoride; vacuum or controlled environment induction furnaces; certain solid state switches; cold cathode tubes, krytron and similar tubes and triggered spark gaps; high energy storage capacitors; ramjet, scramjet, pulse jet and combined cycle engines; flow forming and spin forming machines; propellants for space-craft and launch vehicles; production equipment for propellants; mixers for propellants; production equipment for inert gas and vacuum atomising; graphites; tungsten and alloys of tungsten; molybdenum and alloys of molybdenum; ground support vehicles for space-craft and launch vehicles; test benches and test stands for rockets and rocket motors; environmental and anechoic chambers; radiographic equipment; coatings for reduced observability in infrared or ultra violet wavelengths; production equipment and facilities for space-crafted launch vehicles, non-fluorinated polymeric substances, pumps, servo valves and control systems for propellants, certain high performance engines or certain gas turbine aero engines; technology for autoclaves and hydroclaves; resaturated pyrolized (carbon-carbon) materials; liquid and slurry propellant control systems; and pumps and servo valves for liquid and slurry propellant systems. Non-COCOM controlled items are prefixed PL and allocated an identification number. They have been located in Schedule 1 in the most appropriate place in the relevant Group and are not in numerical sequence. They are as follows: Page PL5001 15 PL5002 14 PL5003 9 PL5005 9 PL5006 9 PL5009 12 PL5014 13 PL5017 14 PL5018 9 PL5019 9 PL5020 13 PL5021 9 PL5024 10 PL5026 10 PL6001 16 PL6002 17 PL6003 17 PL6005 17 PL6006 17 PL6007 23 PL6008 23 PL6009 23 PL6010 23 PL6011 17 PL6012 16 PL6013 20 PL6014 17 PL6015 22 PL6016 21 PL7001 115 PL7002 115 PL7003 66 PL7004 59 PL7005 31 PL7006 117 PL7007 122 PL7008 68 PL7009 51 PL7010 57 PL7011 57 PL7012 115 PL7013 77 PL7016 57 PL7017 58 PL7018 58 PL7019 34 PL7020 72 PL7021 66 PL7022 78 PL7023 78 PL7025 113 PL7026 57 PL7027 25 PL7028 118 PL7029 32 PL7030 32 PL7031 24 PL7032 34 PL7033 47 PL7034 120 PL7035 115 PL7036 115 PL7037 58 PL7038 108 PL7039 87 PL7040 40 PL7041 40 PL7042 80 PL7043 83 PL7044 42 PL7045 40 PL7046 121 The entry numbers for some goods have been changed. Whenever goods are indicated in Schedule 1 by more than one letter, each prohibition in article 2 relating to the relevant letter applies to the export of the goods. Any particular goods may fall within more than one description in Schedule 1 to the Order. In such a case each prohibition (taking effect by such inclusion in that Schedule and the related provisions of article 2) applies to the export of the goods. This may mean that different entries prohibit the export of the goods to different countries. Copies of the British Standards referred to in these Regulations may be obtained from any of the sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution (BSI), or by post from the BSI at 3 Lindford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.
Offences created by this instrument
- – 1 If for the purpose of– a obtaining any licence or permission under this Order for the exportation or shipment as… article 6 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- If for the purpose of– a obtaining any licence or permission under this Order for the exportation or shipment as… article 6(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Any person who– a has exported goods from the United Kingdom under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary… article 6(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Declaration as to goods: powers of search article 7(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Declaration as to goods: powers of search article 7(3) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
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