Administrative measures
Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIM) Act 2011
TPIMs impose terrorism prevention and investigation measures
on certain individuals, including:
An extensive range of monitoring measures: Section 12 (2).
Restriction on the possession of electronic communication devices: Schedule 1,
Part1 (6A).
International travel restrictions: Schedule 1, Part 1 (2).
Restriction on movement domestically: Schedule 1, Part 1.
TPIMs can be imposed for a maximum of two years: Part I, Chapter 1, Section 1.
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015
Ability to seize passports and other travel documents from persons suspected of
involvement in terrorism: Part I, Chapter 1, Section 1.
Ability to impose a ‘Temporary Exclusion Orders’ prohibiting an individual from re-entering
the UK for up to two years if they are deemed to be a terrorist threat: Part I, Chapter 2,
Section 2. This includes the possibility of invalidating passports or seizing passports at the
border in order to investigate.
‘Permits to return’ can be issued to people who are subject to temporary exclusion orders
to allow them to travel back to the UK. Specific conditions are attached to this: Part I,
Chapter 2, Section 5.
Specific obligations can be imposed on individuals who have returned to the UK and are
subject to temporary exclusion orders: Part I, Chapter 2, Section 9.
Individuals subject to a temporary exclusion order who return to the UK without
permission are committing an offence: Part I, Chapter 2, Section 10.
BELGIUM
Criminal measures
Criminal Code of 8 June 1867, as amended in 2020
Higher sentences for crimes classed as having a ‘terrorist purpose’: Article 138, § 1.
Criminalisation of membership/participation in a terrorist organisation: Article 139, 140 § 1,
Article 140, § 1/1 and Article 140, § 2; maximum sentence 20 years.
Criminalisation of terrorist incitement: Article 140bis, § 2 and Article 140ter, § 2; maximum
sentence 15 years.
Criminalisation of terrorist recruitment: Article 140bis, § 2 and Article 140ter, § 2;
maximum sentence 15 years.
Criminalisation of training for the purpose of committing terrorist acts: Article 140quater, §
1, Article 140quater, § 2 and Article 140quinquies; maximum sentence 15 years.
Law of 3 August 2016 on various provisions on the fight against terrorism
Abolishment of the usual criteria for issuance of a warrant in the case of terrorist acts:
Article 6.
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