Statutory Instruments
1999 No. 2609

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 4) Order 1999

Made
16th September 1999

Coming into force
16th September 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.  In Schedule 3 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994(3) there shall be inserted after “Ethiopia”,—

“Indonesia”.

2.  This Order shall come into force on 16th September 1999.

Stephen Byers
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
16th September 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Order)
This Order is consequential on the Order implementing the Common Position of the European Union requiring an arms embargo on certain exports to Indonesia. It removes the exception conferred by Article 3 of the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 from the requirement to obtain an export licence in respect of goods in transit or for transhipment and which are to be exported within 30 days of their importation.


(1)
1939 c. 69.

(2)
S.I. 1970/1537.

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