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Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001

Orders: procedure etc.

Section 10 Procedure for making freezing orders

56.A freezing order must be made by statutory instrument. The order must be laid before Parliament and ceases to have effect after 28 days unless it is approved by each House of Parliament.

Section 11 Procedure for making certain amending orders

57.This section applies where a freezing order has already been made. Where a further order specifies additional persons of the same description as those specified in the original order, or amends the order to specify fewer persons, it is instead subject to the negative resolution procedure.

Section 12 Procedure for revoking orders

58.This section provides that an order revoking a freezing order (without-re-enacting it) is subject to the negative resolution procedure.

Section 13 De-hybridisation

59.This section provides that an order that would otherwise be treated as hybrid under Parliament’s standing orders is not to be subject to the special procedure for hybrid instruments.

Section 14 Orders: supplementary

60.This section provides that a power under the Part to make a freezing order or an order amending or revoking a freezing order may be exercised so as to make different provision for different purposes. A freezing order or an order amending or revoking one may also include supplementary, incidental, saving or transitional provisions. Nothing in this Part affects the generality of this power.

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