Statutory Instruments
1999 No. 335

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 2) Order 1999

Made
11th February 1999

Coming into force
12th February 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 1 of the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939(1) and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 2) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 12th February 1999.

2.  In Schedule 3 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994(3), there shall be inserted after “Democratic Republic of the Congo”–

“Eritrea

Ethiopia”.

A.J. Mantle
An Official of the
Department of Trade and Industry authorised to Act on behalf of the Secretary of State
11th February 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order adds Eritrea and Ethiopia to the list of countries to which arms in transit through the United Kingdom may not be exported without a licence.


(1)
1939 c. 69.

(2)
S.I. 1970/1537.

(3)
S.I. 1994/1191; the relevant amending Orders are S.I. 1994/2711 and 1997/323 and 2758.