{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-united-nations-measures-channel-islands-order-2001/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-united-nations-measures-channel-islands-order-2001/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3363",
  "legislation_title": "The Terrorism (United Nations Measures) (Channel Islands) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-united-nations-measures-channel-islands-order-2001",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Freezing of funds on suspicion",
  "text": "(1) Where the licensing authority has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person by, for, or on behalf of whom any funds are held is or may be—\n(a) a person who commits, attempts to commit, participates in or facilitates the commission of terrorism,\n(b) a person controlled or owned directly or indirectly by a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above,\n(c) a person acting on behalf of, or at the direction of, a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above,\nthe licensing authority may by notice direct that those funds are not to be made available to that person, except under the authority of a licence granted under this article.\n(2) A notice given under paragraph (1) shall specify either—\n(a) the period for which it is to have effect; or\n(b) that the direction is to have effect until it is revoked by notice under paragraph (3) below.\n(3) The licensing authority may by notice revoke a direction given under paragraph (1) at any time.\n(4) The expiry or revocation of a direction shall not affect the application of article 5 in respect of the funds in question.\n(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”).\n(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.\n(7) Any person who contravenes a direction under paragraph (1) above shall be guilty of an offence.\n(8) A recipient who fails to comply with such a requirement as is mentioned in paragraph (6) shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/258",
      "affecting_title": "The Al-Qa'ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) (Channel Islands) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3363/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:27:29.796830+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."
}