The Proscribed Organisations (Name Change) Order 2020

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2020-02-24
State In force
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Made: at 8.45 a.m. on 24th February 2020

Laid before Parliament: at 11.45 a.m. on 24th February 2020

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

In accordance with section 3(6)(a) of that Act, the Secretary of State believes that the organisation listed as National Action in Schedule 2 to that Act is operating wholly or partly under a name that is not specified in that Schedule (whether as well as or instead of under the specified name).

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Proscribed Organisations (Name Change) Order 2020 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is laid before Parliament.

Name change

2

System Resistance Network, being a name not specified in Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (proscribed organisations), is to be treated as another name for National Action, being an organisation listed in that Schedule[^f00002].

Signed

James Brokenshire — Minister of State — Home Office — At 8.45 a.m. on 24th February 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Part 2 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11) makes provision about proscribed organisations (including setting out offences in relation to such organisations in sections 11 to 13). An organisation is proscribed if it is listed in Schedule 2 to that Act or, as in most cases, if it operates under the same name as an organisation so listed (section 3(1)).

Section 3(6) of that Act enables the Secretary of State, by order, to provide that a name that is not specified in Schedule 2 to that Act is to be treated as another name for an organisation that is listed in that Schedule. Article 2 of this Order specifies System Resistance Network as another name for the organisation listed as National Action.

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

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c. 11; section 3 was amended by sections 21 and 22 of the Terrorism Act 2006 (c. 11).

[^f00002]: National Action was added to Schedule 2 by S.I. 2016/1238; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

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