Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Act 2006

3 Scheduled offences

(1) In Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (scheduled offences)—

(a) omit “subject to note 1 below”, wherever occurring, and in note 1 “which is stated to be subject to this note” (which limit the listed offences that may be certified in particular cases as to be treated as if not scheduled);

(b) omit the words in note 2 after “1983” (under which blackmail cannot be certified where it is committed by or in relation to nuclear material); and

(c) insert after note 4—

“5 Notes 2 to 4 are subject to note 1.”

(2) In paragraph 10 of that Part of that Schedule—

(a) at the beginning insert “Subject to notes 2 and 3 below,”; and

(b) in each place where they occur, omit “subject to note 2 below”, “subject to notes 1 and 3 below” and “subject to notes 1 and 2 below”.

(3) After paragraph 22A of that Part of that Schedule insert—

“Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005

22B Offences under section 9 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (contravention of control order obligations and obstruction of persons serving control order).”

(4) An offence is a scheduled offence by virtue of this section only if—

(a) the offence is charged as having been committed on, after or on or after a particular date; and

(b) that date is after 18th February 2006.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) an offence charged as having been committed between two different dates is to be treated as charged as having been committed on or after the earlier of those dates.