2024 No. 550

PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM

The Terrorism Act 2000 (Code of Practice for Authorised Officers) Order 2024

Made

Coming into force

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 7(3) and (4) of Schedule 14 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”)1.

The Secretary of State has—

  1. a

    under paragraph 6(4) of Schedule 14 to the 2000 Act, revised the code of practice issued under paragraph 6(1) of that Schedule in connection with the exercise by authorised officers of functions conferred on them by virtue of the terrorist property provisions2;

  2. b

    in accordance with paragraph 7(1)(a), (b) and (c) and (2) of that Schedule, published a draft of the revised code of practice, considered any representations made about the draft, modified the draft as the Secretary of State thought appropriate in the light of any representations made and laid the draft before Parliament.

A draft of this instrument has been laid before Parliament under section 123(4)(m) of the 2000 Act and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Citation, commencement and extent1

1

This Order may be cited as the Terrorism Act 2000 (Code of Practice for Authorised Officers) Order 2024 and comes into force on 26th April 2024.

2

This Order extends to the United Kingdom.

Revised code of practice2

The revised code of practice entitled “Code of Practice for Officers acting under Schedule 1 to the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001” and laid before Parliament in draft on 22nd January 2024 comes into operation on 26th April 2024.

Revocation3

The Terrorism Act 2000 (Code of Practice for Authorised Officers) Order 20183 is revoked.

Tom TugendhatMinister of StateHome Office
Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into operation on 26th April 2024 a revised code of practice issued by the Secretary of State under the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11) in respect of functions conferred by Schedule 1 to the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (c. 24) (“the 2001 Act”) in relation to terrorist property. This is necessitated by amendments concerning cryptoassets which the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56) made to the 2001 Act.

Article 3 revokes a previous instrument which brought into force the previous code of practice.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.