- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 19 of 99 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 52 carry different penalties and 28 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 22 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Employee — also bound by 189 other Acts
Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts
Occupier — also bound by 235 other Acts
What it requires
Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
Introductory
0 of 2 sections shown2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Proscribed Organisations
4 of 11 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must process deproscription applicationsCrown / Minister / Government department
- Membership of a terrorist or banned organisationAny Person
- Support a proscribed terrorist organisationAny Person
- Wear, display or publish material suggesting support for a proscribed terrorist groupAny Person
7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Terrorist Property
12 of 44 sections shown- Invite, receive or provide funds for terrorismAny Person
- Use or possess money/property for terrorism purposesAny Person
- Make funds available for terrorist useAny Person
- Make insurance payment in response to terrorist demandsAny Person
- Facilitate retention or control of terrorist propertyAny Person
- Fail to disclose suspected terrorism informationAny Person
- Fail to disclose terrorism‑related information in regulated sectorAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must pass terrorism disclosures to the National Crime AgencyStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Standardise information requests and notifications for terrorist financingStatutory regulator
Unlimited fine
- Disclose information that could prejudice a terrorism investigationAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must issue and maintain a code of practiceCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Courts must consider financial impact and third-party interests before forfeitureTribunal / Court
32 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Terrorist Investigations
3 of 11 sections shown- Fail to disclose terrorism‑related informationAny Person
- Disclose or interfere with information relating to a terrorist investigationAny Person
8 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Counter-terrorist Powers
6 of 25 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must create a code of practice for counter-terrorism stop and searchCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must review and may update search power codesCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must publish the code of practiceCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must follow the search powers code when exercising search powersStatutory regulator
- Police may suspend parking places and place traffic signsAny Person
- Park vehicle where prohibited or refuse police order to moveAny Person
19 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Miscellaneous
13 of 20 sections shown- Provide or receive weapons training for terrorismAny Person
- Direct a terrorist organisationAny Person
- Possess items for terrorist purposesAny Person
- Collect or possess information useful to terrorismAny Person
- Elicit, publish or communicate info about armed forces or police useful to terroristsAny Person
- Enter or remain in a government-designated restricted areaAny Person
- Incite another to commit terrorism abroadAny Person
- Incite terrorism abroad that would be an offence in Northern IrelandAny Person
- Incite terrorism abroad (Scotland)Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Commit terrorist bombing abroadAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Facilitate terrorist financing outside the UKAny Person
- Involvement in overseas terrorist acts by UK nationals or residentsAny Person
- Terrorist attacks or threats against UK diplomatic property abroadAny Person
7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Northern Ireland
14 of 49 sections shown- Possession of restricted items on business premisesOccupier
- Obstruct police document examinationAny Person
- Police and armed forces must record and share details of document examinationsAny Person
- Fail to stop or answer questions from a terrorism officerAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Interfere with anti‑terrorism works or equipmentAny Person
- Interfere with road‑closure works or equipmentAny Person
- Fail to stop a vehicle when required under the Terrorism ActAny Person
- Fail to comply with peace‑preservation regulations or ordersAny Person
- Unlawfully collect or possess information about sensitive public officialsAny Person
10 years imprisonment · amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must record the use of counter-terrorism powers in Northern IrelandStatutory regulator
35 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
General
10 of 21 sections shown- Fail to stop a vehicle when requiredAny Person
- Assault or obstruct a counter‑terrorism financial investigatorAny Person
11 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Schedules
49 of 389 shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Commission must allow legal representation for organisations in appealsTribunal / Court
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Court of Session must recall restraint orders when proceedings concludeCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Restraint order must give notice to affected personsTribunal / Court
- Contravene a restraint orderAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Court must re-apply forfeiture order to equivalent property when bankruptcy is annulledTribunal / Court
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Notify affected persons when a restraint order is issuedTribunal / Court
- Wilfully obstruct a terrorist investigation searchAny Person
- Make false or misleading statement under terrorism orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Obstruct a terrorism searchAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Fail to comply with police notice to explain seized materialAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Wilfully obstruct a search under terrorism investigation orderAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Fail to comply with a Secretary of State order on terrorist investigationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Wilfully obstruct a police search under terrorism powersAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Fail to comply with police notice to explain seized materialAny Person
- Fail to comply with a disclosure orderAny Person
- Fail to comply with disclosure order or make false statementAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to comply with disclosure order or provide false informationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to provide required customer information to a terrorist investigation orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to provide customer information for terrorist investigationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Officer consent or neglect leading to institution's failure to provide customer informationDirector or Officer
- Courts can order financial institutions to monitor accounts for terror investigationsAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Senior police officer must confirm oral authorisation in writingCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must set stop-and-search authorisation expiry within 14 daysCrown / Minister / Government department
- Ensure passengers and crew are only disembarked at ports after examinationEmployee
- Provide ship or aircraft information to examining officer on requestAny Person
- Fail to comply with or obstruct Schedule 7 counter-terrorism dutiesAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Cooperate with examining officers: give information, ID and documents on requestAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must require solicitor presence at terrorism-related interviewsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must destroy samples taken under terrorism powers unless court orders retentionCrown / Minister / Government department
- Restrict use of seized terrorism-related material to specific purposes onlyAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Review officer must inform detainees of rights and reassess delaysCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Review officer must record review outcome and inform detained personCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Prosecution restrictions for non-UK service providers under section 58AStatutory regulator
- Defence for storing unlawful terrorist informationAny Person
- Cause explosion or possess explosives with intent to endanger lifeAny Person
- Fail to comply with search requirement or obstruct a searchAny Person
- Obstruct search or fail to comply with anti-terrorism requirementsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to stop when required under counter-terrorism powersAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Obtain compensation by deception or false statementAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Provide unlicensed security services for rewardAny Person
- Fail to comply with security service obligations under Schedule 13Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to comply with constable's request for security guard recordsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Keep false or misleading records of security guardsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Provide unlicensed security services for rewardAny Person
- Publish advert for unlicensed security servicesAny Person
- Pay for unlicensed security servicesAny Person
- Pay money or provide financial assistance to a terrorist organisationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Make false statement in security licence applicationAny Person
Unlimited fine
340 other schedules
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