{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2006/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2006/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/11",
  "legislation_title": "Terrorism Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2006",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Maximum penalty for contravening notice relating to encrypted information",
  "text": "(1) In section 53 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23) (offence of contravening disclosure requirement)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) of subsection (5), for “two years” substitute “ the appropriate maximum term ”; and\n(b) after that subsection insert the subsections set out in subsection (2).\n(2) The inserted subsections are—\n“(5A) In subsection (5) ‘the appropriate maximum term’ means—\n(a) in a national security case, five years; and\n(b) in any other case, two years.\n(5B) In subsection (5A) ‘a national security case’ means a case in which the grounds specified in the notice to which the offence relates as the grounds for imposing a disclosure requirement were or included a belief that the imposition of the requirement was necessary in the interests of national security.”\n(3) This section does not apply to offences committed before the commencement of this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in force at 13.4.2006 by S.I. 2006/1013, art. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/11/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:57.271434+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}