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Part 1 Powers to gather and share information
Power to take fingerprints and samples from person subject to control order
Retention and use of fingerprints and samples
14.Material subject to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
15.Material subject to the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989
16.Material subject to the Terrorism Act 2000: England and Wales and Northern Ireland
18.Destruction of national security material not subject to existing statutory restrictions
Part 3 Prosecution and punishment of terrorist offences
Part 4 Notification requirements
Part 8 Supplementary provisions
SCHEDULES
Disclosure and the intelligence services: consequential amendments
Offences where terrorist connection to be considered
Murder. Manslaughter. Culpable homicide. Kidnapping. Abduction.
An offence under any of the following sections of the...
An offence under any of the following sections of the...
An offence under section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act...
An offence under section 1 of the Taking of Hostages...
An offence under any of the following sections of the...
An offence under any of the following sections of the...
An offence under any of the following sections of the...
An offence under Part 2 of the Channel Tunnel (Security)...
An offence under any of the following sections of the...
An offence under any of the following sections of the...
Any ancillary offence in relation to an offence specified in...
Foreign travel restriction orders
Notification requirements: application to service offences
Service offences to which this Part applies: terrorism offences
Service offences to which this Part applies: offences having a terrorist connection
Service offences: persons to whom notification requirements apply
Service offences: sentences or orders triggering notification requirements
Service offences: power to amend specified terms or periods of imprisonment or detention
Service offences: period for which notification requirements apply
Terrorist financing and money laundering
Part 2 Persons to whom a direction may be given
Part 3 Requirements that may be imposed by a direction
Part 5 Enforcement: information powers
Part 8 Supplementary and general
Offences relating to information about members of armed forces etc: supplementary provisions
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