Commentary on Sections
Section 45: Reviews of operation of other terrorism legislation
240.This section makes equivalent changes to those contained in section 44 by providing that for matters falling within the Independent Reviewer’s remit contained in other legislation (section 36 of the Terrorism Act 2006; section 31 of the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc Act 2010; section 20 of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011), the Independent Reviewer must notify the Secretary of State at the beginning of each calendar year of any matters which he intends to review in the following 12 months. The Independent Reviewer must provide a report on the outcome of any such review to the Secretary of State as soon as reasonably practicable after its conclusion, who will in turn lay the report before Parliament. However, the Terrorism Act 2000, which remains the UK’s principal piece of counter-terrorism legislation and contains a number of fundamental provisions, such as the definition of terrorism, continues to be subject to an annual reporting requirement.
