{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proscribed-organisations-name-change-order-2016/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proscribed-organisations-name-change-order-2016/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1187",
  "legislation_title": "The Proscribed Organisations (Name Change) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proscribed-organisations-name-change-order-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Name change",
  "text": "Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, being a name that is not specified in Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000, is to be treated as another name for the organisation listed in that Schedule as Al-Qa’ida.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Al-Qa’ida was added to Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000 by article 2 of S.I. 2001/1261. Article 2 of S.I. 2013/1795 specifies that “al-Nusrah Front” and “Jabhat al-Nusrah li-ahl al Sham” are to be treated as other names for Al-Qa’ida."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1187/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:17:22.782693+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}