Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001

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(1)A freezing order is an order which prohibits persons from making funds available to or for the benefit of a person or persons specified in the order.

(2)The order must provide that these are the persons who are prohibited—

(a)all persons in the United Kingdom, and

(b)all persons elsewhere who are nationals of the United Kingdom or are bodies incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or are Scottish partnerships.

(3)The order may specify the following (and only the following) as the person or persons to whom or for whose benefit funds are not to be made available—

(a)the person or persons reasonably believed by the Treasury to have taken or to be likely to take the action referred to in section 4;

(b)any person the Treasury reasonably believe has provided or is likely to provide assistance (directly or indirectly) to that person or any of those persons.

(4)A person may be specified under subsection (3) by—

(a)being named in the order, or

(b)falling within a description of persons set out in the order.

(5)The description must be such that a reasonable person would know whether he fell within it.

(6)Funds are financial assets and economic benefits of any kind.