Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1261
PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM
The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2001
Made
28th March 2001
Coming into force
29th March 2001
Whereas the Secretary of State believes that the organisations set out in article 2 of the following Order are concerned in terrorism;
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 3(3)(a) of the Terrorism Act 2000( 1 ), hereby makes the following Order; a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Proscribed organisations
2. The following organisations are hereby added to Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000.
Al-Qa'ida
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Al-Gama'at al-Islamiya
Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armée) (GIA)
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat) (GSPC)
Babbar Khalsa
International Sikh Youth Federation
Harakat Mujahideen
Jaish e Mohammed
Lashkar e Tayyaba
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Hizballah External Security Organisation
Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades
Palestinian Islamic Jihad—Shaqaqi
Abu Nidal Organisation
Islamic Army of Aden
Mujaheddin e Khalq
Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) (PKK)
Revolutionary Peoples' Liberation Party—Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi) (DHKP-C)
Basque Homeland and Liberty (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) (ETA)
17 November Revolutionary Organisation (N17)
Jack Straw
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
28th March 2001
2000 c. 11 ; by virtue of section 3(4), the power in section 3(3)(a) may be exercised only in respect of organisations that the Secretary of State believes to be concerned in terrorism.