Made | 9th October 2001 | ||
Laid before Parliament | 9th October 2001 | ||
Coming into force | 10th October 2001 |
Interpretation: general
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In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires -
Interpretation: terrorism
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- (1) In this Order "terrorism" means the use or threat of action where the action falls within paragraph (2) below, the use or threat is designed to influence the government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.
(2) Action is terrorism if it -
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) above, the use or threat of action falling within paragraph (2) which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism whether or not the use or threat is designed to influence the government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public.
(4) For the purposes of this article -
Collection of funds
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- (1) Any person who invites another to provide funds and intends that they should be used, or knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that they may be used, for the purposes of terrorism, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who receives funds, and intends that they should be used, or knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that they may be used, for the purposes of terrorism, shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Any person who provides funds, and knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that they will or may be used for the purposes of terrorism, shall be guilty of an offence.
(4) In this article a reference to the provision of funds is a reference to them being given, lent or otherwise made available, whether or not for consideration.
Making funds available
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Any person who, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this article, makes any funds or financial (or related) services available to, or for the benefit of -
shall be guilty of an offence.
Freezing of funds on suspicion
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- (1) Where the Treasury have reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person by, for, or on behalf of whom any funds are held is or may be -
the Treasury may by notice direct that those funds are not to be made available to any person, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this article.
(2) A notice given under paragraph (1) shall specify either -
(3) The Treasury may by notice revoke a direction under paragraph (1) at any time.
(4) The expiry or revocation of a direction shall not affect the application of article 5 in respect of the funds in question.
(5) A notice under paragraph (1) or (3) shall be given in writing to the person holding the funds in question ("the recipient"), and shall require the recipient to send a copy of the notice without delay to the person whose funds they are, or on whose behalf they are held ("the owner").
(6) A recipient shall be treated as complying with that requirement if, without delay, he sends a copy of the notice to the owner at his last-known address or, if he does not have an address for the owner, he makes arrangements for a copy of the notice to be supplied to the owner at the first available opportunity.
(7) Any person whose funds are the subject of a direction made under paragraph (1) above, may apply for the direction to be reviewed in the same manner as the review of a direction under the Banking Act 1989 (an Act of Tynwald), and section 24 of that Act and any regulations under that section shall apply to a review under this Order as they apply in respect of a review under that section.
(8) Any person who contravenes a direction under paragraph (1) above shall be guilty of an offence.
(9) A recipient who fails to comply with such a requirement as is mentioned in paragraph (6) shall be guilty of an offence.
Facilitation of activities prohibited under articles 4, 5 and 6(8)
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Any person who intentionally engages in any activities knowing that the object or effect of those activities is to enable or facilitate the commission (by that person or another) of an offence under articles 5 or 6(8) shall be guilty of an offence.
Offences in connection with licences
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- (1) Any person who, for the purposes of obtaining a licence under article 5 or 6, knowingly or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who has done any act under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this Order and who fails to comply with the conditions attaching to that licence shall be guilty of an offence:
Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under this paragraph where he proves that the condition with which he failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his consent, by the Treasury after the doing of the act authorised by the licence.
Failure to disclose knowledge or suspicion of offences
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- (1) A relevant institution is guilty of an offence under this Order if -
(b) it does not disclose to the Treasury the information or other matter on which the knowledge or suspicion is based as soon as is reasonably practicable after that information or other matter comes to its attention.
(2) Where a relevant institution discloses to the Treasury -
the disclosure shall not be treated as a breach of any restriction imposed by statute or otherwise.
Obtaining of information
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- (1) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Order or any provision of any other law, the Treasury may request any person to furnish to them any information in his possession or control, or to produce to them any document in his possession or control, which they may require for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Order or any law making provision with respect to any of the matters regulated by this Order that is in force in the United Kingdom, or any of the Channel Islands or any territory listed in the Schedule to this Order; and any person to whom such a request is made shall comply with it within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the request.
(2) Nothing in the foregoing sub-paragraph shall be taken to require any person who has acted as advocate for any person to furnish or produce any privileged information or document in his possession in that capacity.
(3) Where a person is convicted of failing to furnish information or produce a document when requested to do so under this article the court may make an order requiring him, within such period as may be specified in the order, to furnish the information or produce the document.
(4) The power conferred by this article to request any person to produce documents shall include power to take copies of or extracts from any document so produced and to request that person, or, where that person is a body corporate, any other person who is a present or past officer of, or is employed by, the body corporate, to provide an explanation of any of them.
(5) The furnishing of any information or the production of any document under this article shall not be treated as a breach of any restriction imposed by statute or otherwise.
(6) Any person who -
shall be guilty of an offence.
Disclosure of information
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- (1) No information furnished or document produced (including any copy of an extract made of any document produced) by a person in pursuance of a request made under this Order shall be disclosed except -
Provided that a person who has obtained information or is in possession of a document only in his capacity as servant or agent of another person may not give consent for the purposes of this sub-paragraph but such consent may instead be given by any person who is entitled to that information or to the possession of that document in his own right; or
(d) on the authority of the Treasury, to any organ of the United Nations or to any person in the service of the United Nations or to the government of any other country for the purpose of assisting the United Nations or that government in securing compliance with or detecting evasion of measures in relation to terrorism decided upon by the Security Council of the United Nations; or
(e) with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any proceedings -
(2) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, discloses information or a document in contravention of paragraph (1) above shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalties and proceedings
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- (1) Any person guilty of an offence under article 4, 5, 6(8), 7 or 8(2) shall be liable -
(2) Any person guilty of an offence under article 8(1), 10(6)(b) or (d) or 11(2) shall be liable -
(3) Any person guilty of an offence under article 6(9), 9 or 10(6)(a) or (c) shall be liable on summary conviction to custody for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.
(4) Where any body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in section 75(1) of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1989 (an Act of Tynwald), a complaint relating to an offence under this Order which is triable by a court of summary jurisdiction may be heard if it is made at any time within three years after the commission of the offence and within 12 months after the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify the proceedings comes to his knowledge.
(6) For the purposes of this article -
(7) No proceedings for an offence under this Order, other than a summary offence, shall be instituted except by or with the consent of the Attorney General for the Isle of Man:
Provided that this paragraph shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence, or the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence, notwithstanding that the necessary consent to the institution of proceedings for the offence has not been obtained.
Functions of the Treasury
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The Treasury may, to such extent and subject to such restrictions and conditions as they may think proper, delegate or authorise the delegation of any of their powers under this Order to any person, or class or description of persons, approved by them and references in this Order to the Treasury shall be construed accordingly.
Licences
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- (1) A licence granted under this Order shall be in writing and may be either general or special, may be subject to or without conditions, and may be limited so as to expire on a specified date unless renewed.
(2) A special licence may be varied or revoked at any time by written notice given by the Treasury to each recipient of the licence.
(3) The Treasury shall publish a general licence in such manner as they think fit. A general licence may have varied or revoked at any time by written notice, which shall be published by the Treasury in the same manner as the licence.
(4) A notice under paragraph (2) above may be given by post, and shall be deemed to have been given to a person if it is sent to him at his last-known address.
A K Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
[2] S.I. 1992/3218, amended by S.I.s 1993/3225, 1995/1217, 1995/1442, 1996/1669 and 1999/2094. Chapter II of Part I of Schedule 5 to the Bank of England Act 1998 (c. 11) and sections 70(1) and 79(14) and Part II of Schedle 6 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (c. 36).back