Except with the consent of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the exportation from New Zealand to Rwanda, whether directly or indirectly, of—

• (a) Arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons, ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, and paramilitary police equipment; or

• (b) Spare parts for any of the goods specified in paragraph (a) of this regulation—

is hereby prohibited.

All the provisions of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 with respect to prohibited exports (except section 209) shall extend and apply with respect to goods whose exportation is prohibited by regulation 3 of these regulations, in all respects as if the exportation of the goods were prohibited under section 56 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996.

If a Customs officer has reason to suspect that any goods being exported are goods whose exportation is prohibited by regulation 3 of these regulations, the Customs officer may detain the goods.

The master of a ship or the pilot in command of an aircraft shall not permit to be laden in the ship or aircraft any goods whose exportation is prohibited by regulation 3 of these regulations, knowing that the goods are intended to be exported in contravention of that regulation.

The Customs may withhold the clearance of any ship or aircraft so long as there are on board the ship or aircraft any goods known to a Customs officer to be goods whose exportation is prohibited by regulation 3 of these regulations.

Except with the consent of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, no person shall in New Zealand, and no New Zealand citizen shall in any place outside New Zealand, enter into or be concerned in any sale, transfer, carriage, or delivery of or other dealing with any of the goods specified in regulation 3 of these regulations knowing that—

• (a) They are intended to be imported into Rwanda; or

• (b) They are to be supplied or delivered to or to the order of any person in Rwanda.

(1) This regulation applies to—

• (a) Any New Zealand ship:

• (b) Any New Zealand aircraft:

• (c) Any other ship or aircraft that is, for the time being, chartered to any person being a New Zealand citizen or a body incorporated or constituted under the law of New Zealand.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of these regulations, no ship or aircraft to which this regulation applies shall be used for the carriage of any of the goods specified in regulation 3 of these regulations, if the carriage is, or forms part of, carriage from any place outside Rwanda to any destination in Rwanda.

(3) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to any carriage of goods in respect of which the consent of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been given under any other provision of these regulations.

(1) If any ship or aircraft is used in contravention of regulation 9 of these regulations, then,—

• (a) In the case of a New Zealand ship or aircraft, the owner and the master of the ship or, as the case may be, the owner and the pilot in command of the aircraft; or

• (b) In the case of any other ship or aircraft, the charterer of the ship or aircraft and, if the master of the ship or pilot in command of the aircraft is a New Zealand citizen, such master or pilot in command—

shall each be guilty of an offence against these regulations, unless he or she proves that he or she did not know and had no reason to suppose that the carriage of goods was, or formed part of, carriage from any place outside Rwanda to any destination in Rwanda.

(2) In this regulation, the terms owner and charterer, in relation to a ship, include any person acting as the agent of the owner or, as the case may be, the agent of the charterer.

Every person commits an offence against these regulations and shall be liable accordingly under section 3 of the United Nations Act 1946, who acts in contravention of or fails to comply in any respect with any of the provisions of these regulations.

Proceedings for the trial and punishment of any person who is charged with having committed outside New Zealand any offence against these regulations shall not be instituted in any Court except with the consent of the Attorney-General and on his or her certificate that it is expedient that the proceedings be instituted.

Nothing in these regulations shall limit or affect the operation of the Customs and Excise Act 1996.