The Proscribed Organisations (Name Changes) (No. 2) Order 2014

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 2210

Prevention And Suppression Of Terrorism

The Proscribed Organisations (Name Changes) (No. 2) Order 2014

Made

19th August 2014

Laid before Parliament

19th August 2014

Coming into force

20th August 2014

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(6) of the Terrorism Act 2000(1).

In accordance with section 3(6)(a) of that Act, the Secretary of State believes that the organisation referred to in article 2 of this Order, being an organisation in Schedule 2 to that Act, is operating wholly or partly under a name that is not specified in that Schedule (whether as well as or instead of under the specified names).

1.  This Order may be cited as the Proscribed Organisations (Name Changes) (No. 2) Order 2014 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is laid before Parliament.

2.  Islamic State (Dawlat al Islamiya), being a name that is not specified in Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000, is to be treated as another name for the organisation listed in that Schedule as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) (Dawat al Islamiya fi Iraq wa al Sham (DAISh))(2).

Philip Hammond

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Home Office

19th August 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Part 2 of the Terrorism Act 2000 makes provision about proscribed organisations (including setting out offences in relation to such organisations in sections 11 to 13). An organisation is proscribed if it is listed in Schedule 2 to that Act or operates under the same name as an organisation so listed (section 3(1)).

Section 3(6) of the Terrorism Act 2000 (as inserted by section 22(2) of the Terrorism Act 2006) enables the Secretary of State, by order, to provide that a name that is not specified in Schedule 2 to that Act is to be treated as another name for an organisation that is listed in that Schedule. Article 2 of this Order specifies another name for the organisation referred to in article 2, which is listed in that Schedule as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) (Dawat al Islamiya fi Iraq wa al Sham (DAISh)).

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

(1)

2000 c. 11; section 3(6) was inserted by section 22(2) of the Terrorism Act 2006 (c. 11).

(2)

A relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2014/1624.