Part 5Terrorism
Damages in national security proceedings
87Sections 84 to 86: interpretation
“claimant” means a person claiming a remedy of any kind against the Crown in national security proceedings;
“court” includes a tribunal;
“intelligence service” means—
(a)
the Security Service;
(b)
the Secret Intelligence Service;
(c)
the Government Communications Headquarters;
“
” has the same meaning as in the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (see section 4 of that Act);“national security proceedings” has the meaning given by section 84;
“rules of court” includes tribunal procedure rules;
“terrorism offence” means any of the following (whenever committed)—
(a)
an offence listed in—
- (i)
Schedule A1 to the Sentencing Code (terrorism offences: England and Wales), or
- (ii)
Schedule 1A to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (terrorism offences: Scotland and Northern Ireland);
(b)
a service offence as respects which the corresponding civil offence is so listed; and for this purpose “service offence” and “corresponding civil offence” have the same meanings as in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (see section 95 of that Act);
(c)
an offence that—
- (i)
was abolished on or before the date this section comes into force, and
- (ii)
if committed on or after the date on which it was abolished, would have constituted an offence referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);
(d)
an offence determined to have a terrorist connection under—
- (i)
section 69 of the Sentencing Code (in the case of an offender sentenced in England and Wales), including as applied by section 238(6) of the Armed Forces Act 2006,
- (ii)
section 30 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (in the case of an offender sentenced in Northern Ireland, or an offender sentenced in England and Wales before the Sentencing Code applied), or
- (iii)
section 32 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (in the case of an offender sentenced for a service offence before the Sentencing Code applied);
(e)
an offence proved to have been aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection under section 31 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (in the case of an offender sentenced in Scotland).