Terrorism (Jersey)
Law 2002[1]
A LAW to replace the Prevention of Terrorism
(Jersey) Law 1996 and to make further provision about terrorism
Commencement
[see endnotes]
PART 1
INTERPRETATION[2]
1 General
interpretation[3]
(1) In this
Law –
“act of terrorism” means an act or threat of a kind
described in Article 2;
“association” includes an unincorporated body;
“customs officer” means the Agent of the Impôts
and any other officer of the Impôts appointed pursuant to Article 4
of the Customs and Excise (Jersey)
Law 1999;
“explosive” means –
(a) an
article or substance manufactured for the purpose of producing a practical
effect by explosion, or intended for that purpose by a person possessing the
article or substance;
(b) materials
for making an article or substance within paragraph (a);
(c) anything
used or intended to be used for causing or assisting in causing an explosion;
(d) a
part of anything within sub-paragraph (a) or (c);
“financial institution” means a person carrying on any
business described in Schedule 2 to the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey)
Law 1999;
“financial services” has the meaning given by the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing
(Jersey) Law 2019;
“firearm” includes a gun or an air pistol;
“FIU” means the
body for the time being designated by Regulations made under Article 41B of
the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey)
Law 1999 as the financial intelligence unit for Jersey;
“Force” means the States of Jersey Police Force;
“Immigration Act 1971” means the Immigration
Act 1971 of the United Kingdom Parliament as it is extended to Jersey by
Order in Council;
“immigration officer” means a person appointed as an
immigration officer under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration
Act 1971;
“Islands” means the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Isle
of Man;
“legal representative” means an advocate, solicitor, or
any person who, not being an advocate or solicitor, is employed by a firm of
advocates or solicitors and notified by that employer to the Chief Officer of
the Force as a legal representative for the purposes of this Law;
“Minister” means the Minister
for Justice and Home Affairs;
“organization” includes any association, group or
combination of persons;
“police officer” means an officer of the Force or a
member of the Honorary Police;
“premises” includes a place and in particular includes a
vehicle, installation, tent or moveable structure;
“property” means all property, whether movable or
immovable, or vested or contingent, and whether in Jersey or elsewhere,
including –
(a) any
legal document or instrument evidencing title to or interest in any such
property;
(b) any
interest in or power in respect of any such property;
(c) in
relation to movable property, any right, including a right to possession,
and for the avoidance of doubt, a reference in this Law to property
being obtained by a person includes a reference to any interest in that
property being obtained;
“proscribed organization” shall be construed in
accordance with Article 6;
“road” has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Road Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1956;
“terrorism” has the meaning given by Article 2;
“terrorist entity” has the meaning given by Article 4;
“terrorist investigation” means an investigation of any
of the following –
(a) the
commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism or of any offence
under this Law;
(b) action
facilitating the commission, preparation or instigation of such an act or
offence;
(c) property
which is or is alleged to be terrorist property; or
(d) action
which appears to have been taken for the purposes of terrorism;
“terrorist property” has the meaning given by Article 3;
“vehicle”, except in Articles 44 to 48 and Schedule 8,
includes an aircraft, hovercraft, or vessel.[4]
(2) A reference in this Law
to an Act of the United Kingdom is a reference to that enactment as amended
from time to time.
(3) A reference in this Law,
without more, to action taken for the purposes of terrorism includes a
reference to action taken for the benefit or support (as defined by Article 15(3)(c))
of a terrorist entity.[5]
2 Meaning
of “terrorism”[6]
(1) In this Law, “terrorism”
means –
(a) an
act which constitutes an offence under the laws of Jersey and is listed in
Schedule 10 to this Law; or
(b) an
act falling within paragraph (2), where the act or threat of such an act
is intended or may reasonably be regarded as intended –
(i) to influence,
coerce or compel the States of Jersey or the government of any other place or
country, or an international organization, to do or refrain from doing any act,
or
(ii) to
intimidate the public or a section of the public,
and the act is done or the threat is made for the purpose of
advancing a political, racial, religious or ideological cause.
(2) An act falls within
this paragraph if it is an act other than one referred to in paragraph (1)(a)
which –
(a) is
intended to cause the death of, or serious injury to, a person not taking an
active part in hostilities in a situation of armed conflict;
(b) creates
a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the
public;
(c) involves
serious damage to property;
(d) seriously
disrupts or seriously interferes with any electronic system or the provision of
any service directly relating to communications infrastructure, banking and
financial services, public utilities, transportation or other infrastructure;
(e) seriously
disrupts or seriously interferes with the provision of emergency police, fire
and rescue or medical services; or
(f) involves
prejudice to national security or national defence.
(3) An act or the threat of
an act falling within paragraph (2) which involves the use of firearms or
explosives is terrorism whether or not sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of
paragraph (1)(b) is satisfied.
(4) For the purposes of
this Article –
(a) a
reference to an act includes an act carried out in a place or country other
than Jersey;
(b) a
reference to a person or to property is a reference to any person or to
property wherever situated;
(c) a
reference to the public includes reference to the public in a place or country
other than Jersey.
(5) The Minister may by
Order amend Schedule 10 to add or delete an offence for the purposes of
this Article.
3 Meaning
of “terrorist property”[7]
(1) In this Law, “terrorist
property” –
(a) means
property which is intended to be used or likely to be used, in whole or in
part, directly or indirectly, for the purposes of terrorism or for the support
of a terrorist entity; and
(b) includes,
but is not limited to, the resources of a terrorist entity.
(2) Reference in paragraph (1)(b)
to resources includes reference to any property which is applied or made
available, or is intended to be applied or made available, for use by a
terrorist entity.
4 Meaning
of “terrorist entity”[8]
(1) In this Law, a “terrorist
entity” is –
(a) any
entity which –
(i) commits, prepares
or instigates an act of terrorism, or
(ii) facilitates
the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism; and
(b) any
proscribed organization.[9]
(2) For
the purposes of paragraph (1) it does not matter –
(a) whether
a specific act of terrorism is committed or not; nor
(b) whether,
if an act of terrorism is in fact committed, it is committed by an entity
charged with an offence under this Law or any other enactment, or by a related
entity.
(3) In this
Article –
(a) “entity”
includes an organization (whether or not proscribed), and a legal or natural
person;
(b) one
entity is related to another where –
(i) one entity
directs or controls another,
(ii) one
entity participates as an accomplice in the acts of another, or
(iii) one
entity contributes to the commission of acts by the other intentionally and
with the knowledge of the intention of the other to commit such acts.
5 [10]
PART 2
PROSCRIBED ORGANIZATIONS
Procedure
6 Proscription
(1) For the purposes of
this Law an organization is proscribed if –
(a) it is
listed in Schedule 1;
(b) it
operates under the same name as an organization listed in that Schedule; or
(c) it is
proscribed by virtue of or under section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000
(c. 11) of the United Kingdom Parliament.[11]
(2) Paragraph (1)(b)
shall not apply in relation to an organization listed in Schedule 1 if its
entry is the subject of a note in that Schedule.
(3) The Minister may by
Order –
(a) add
an organization to Schedule 1;
(b) remove
an organization from that Schedule;
(c) amend
that Schedule in some other way.
(4) The Minister may
exercise the Minister’s power under paragraph (3)(a) in respect of
an organization only if the Minister believes that it is concerned in
terrorism.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)
an organization is concerned in terrorism if it –
(a) commits
or participates in acts of terrorism;
(b) prepares
for terrorism;
(c) promotes
or encourages terrorism; or
(d) is
otherwise concerned in terrorism.
7 Deproscription:
application
(1) An application may be
made to the Minister for the exercise of the Minister’s power under Article 6(3)(b)
to remove an organization from Schedule 1.
(2) An application may be
made by –
(a) the
organization; or
(b) any
person affected by the organization’s proscription.
(3) The Minister shall make
an Order prescribing the procedure for applications under this Article.
(4) An Order under paragraph (3)
shall, in particular –
(a) require
the Minister to determine an application within a specified period of time; and
(b) require
an application to state the grounds on which it is made.
8 Deproscription:
appeal
(1) There shall be a
commission, to be known as the Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission.
(2) Where an application
under Article 7 has been refused, the applicant may appeal to the
Commission.
(3) The Commission shall
allow an appeal against a refusal to deproscribe an organization if it
considers that the decision to refuse was flawed when considered in the light
of the principles applicable on an application for judicial review.
(4) Where the Commission
allows an appeal under this Article by or in respect of an organization, it may
make an order under this paragraph.
(5) Where an order is made
under paragraph (4) the Minister shall as soon as is reasonably
practicable make an Order under Article 6(3)(b) removing the organization
from the list in Schedule 1.
(6) Schedule 2 shall
have effect in respect of the constitution and procedures of the Commission.
9 Further
appeal
(1) A party to an appeal
under Article 8 which the Commission has determined may bring a further
appeal on a question of law to the Court of Appeal.
(2) An appeal under paragraph (1)
may be brought only with the permission –
(a) of
the Commission; or
(b) where
the Commission refuses permission, of the Court of Appeal.
(3) An order under Article 8(4)
shall not require the Minister to take any action until the final determination
or disposal of an appeal under this Article (including any appeal to the Privy
Council).
10 Appeal:
effect on conviction, etc.
(1) This Article applies
where –
(a) an
appeal under Article 8 has been allowed in respect of an organization;
(b) an
order has been made under Article 6(3)(b) in respect of the organization
in accordance with an order of the Commission under Article 8(4);
(c) a
person has been convicted of an offence in respect of the organization under
any of Articles 12 to 16, 20 and 52; and
(d) the
activity to which the charge referred took place on or after the date of the
refusal to deproscribe against which the appeal under Article 8 was
brought.[12]
(2) If the person mentioned
in paragraph (1)(c) was convicted by or before the Royal
Court –
(a) the
person may appeal against the conviction to the Court of Appeal; and
(b) the
Court of Appeal shall allow the appeal.
(3) A person may appeal
against a conviction by virtue of paragraph (2) whether or not he or she
has already appealed against the conviction.
(4) An appeal by virtue of paragraph (2) –
(a) must
be brought within the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which
the order mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) comes into force; and
(b) shall
be treated as an appeal under Article 24 of the Court of Appeal (Jersey)
Law 1961 (but does not require any leave).
(5) If the person mentioned
in paragraph (1)(c) was convicted by the Magistrate’s
Court –
(a) the
person may appeal against the conviction to the Royal Court; and
(b) the
Royal Court shall allow the appeal.
(6) A person may appeal
against a conviction by virtue of paragraph (5) –
(a) whether
or not he or she pleaded guilty;
(b) whether
or not he or she has already appealed against the conviction; and
(c) whether
or not he or she has made an application in respect of the conviction under Article 37
of the Criminal Procedure (Jersey)
Law 2018.[13]
(7) An appeal by virtue of paragraph (5) –
(a) must
be brought within the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which
the order mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) comes into force; and
(b) shall
be treated as an appeal under Article 33(2)(b) of the Criminal Procedure (Jersey)
Law 2018.[14]
11 Evidence:
inadmissibility
(1) The following shall not
be admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence under any of Articles 12
to 16, 20 and 52 –
(a) evidence
of anything done in relation to an application to the Minister under Article 7;
(b) evidence
of anything done in relation to proceedings before the Commission under Article 8;
(c) evidence
of anything done in relation to proceedings under Article 9; and
(d) any
document submitted for the purposes of proceedings mentioned in any of sub-paragraphs (a)
to (c).[15]
(2) But paragraph (1)
shall not prevent evidence from being adduced on behalf of the accused.
Offences
12 Membership
(1) A person commits an
offence if he or she belongs or professes to belong to a proscribed
organization.
(2) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under paragraph (1) to prove –
(a) that
the organization was not proscribed on the last (or only) occasion on which the
person became a member or began to profess to be a member; and
(b) that the
person has not taken part in the activities of the organization at any time
while it was proscribed.
(3) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 10 years or to a fine, or both.
(4) In paragraph (2)
“proscribed” means proscribed for the purposes of this Law.
13 Support
(1) A person commits an
offence if –
(a) he or
she invites support for a proscribed organization; and
(b) the
support is not, or is not restricted to, the provision of property (within the
meaning of Article 15).[16]
(2) A person commits an
offence if he or she arranges, manages or assists in arranging or managing a
meeting which he or she knows is –
(a) to
support a proscribed organization;
(b) to
further the activities of a proscribed organization; or
(c) to be
addressed by a person who belongs or professes to belong to a proscribed
organization.
(3) A person commits an
offence if he or she addresses a meeting and the purpose of his or her address
is to encourage support for a proscribed organization or to further its
activities.
(4) Where a person is
charged with an offence under paragraph (2)(c) in respect of a private
meeting it is a defence for the person to prove that he or she had no
reasonable cause to believe that the address mentioned in paragraph (2)(c)
would support a proscribed organization or further its activities.
(5) In paragraph (2)
to (4) –
(a) “meeting”
means a meeting of 3 or more persons, whether or not the public are admitted;
and
(b) a
meeting is private if the public are not admitted.
(6) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 10 years or to a fine, or both.
14 Uniform
(1) A person in a public
place commits an offence if he or she –
(a) wears
an item of clothing; or
(b) wears,
carries or displays an article,
in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable
suspicion that the person is a member or supporter of a proscribed
organization.
(2) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of 6
months and to a fine.[17]
PART 3
offences relating to terrorist financing[18]
15 Use
and possession etc. of property for purposes of terrorism[19]
(1) It is an offence for a
person to use property for the purposes of terrorism (and for the avoidance of
doubt such purposes include the support of a terrorist entity).[20]
(2) It is an offence for a
person –
(a) to
possess property;
(b) to
provide, or invite another to provide, property or a financial service; or
(c) to
collect or receive property,
intending that the property or service be used, or knowing,
suspecting, or having reasonable grounds to suspect that it may be used, for
the purposes of terrorism (and for the avoidance of doubt such purposes include
the support of a terrorist entity).[21]
(2A) Without prejudice to the generality
of paragraphs (1) and (2), it shall be an offence for a
person –
(a) to
provide, or to invite another to provide, property or a financial service; or
(b) to
collect or receive property,
intending that the property or service be used, or knowing,
suspecting or having reasonable grounds to suspect that it may be used (whether
in whole or in part) for the purpose of travel by an individual to a state or
territory other than his or her state or territory of residence for the
purposes of terrorism (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the purposes of
planning or preparation of acts of terrorism, providing or receiving training
in or for the purposes of terrorism, and support of a terrorist entity).[22]
(3) In this
Article –
(a) reference
to the use of property includes use in whole or in part, directly or
indirectly;
(b) reference
to the provision of property or a financial service is a reference to the
property or service being given, lent, or otherwise made available, whether or
not for consideration; and
(c) “support
of a terrorist entity” includes, but is not limited to, support by way of
providing or subsidizing educational or other day-to-day living expenses.
(4) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 14 years or to a fine, or both.
16 Dealing
with terrorist property[23]
(1) It is an offence for a
person to do any act (including but not limited to an act listed in paragraph (3))
which facilitates the retention or control of terrorist property.
(2) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under paragraph (1) to prove that the
person did not know or suspect or had no reasonable grounds to suspect
that –
(a) the
purpose of the act was to facilitate the retention or control of terrorist
property; or
(b) the
property in question was terrorist property.
(3) The following acts are
those mentioned in paragraph (1) –
(a) concealing
or disguising the property;
(b) removing
the property from Jersey;
(c) transferring
the property to nominees.
(4) In paragraph (1),
reference to doing an act includes reference to omitting to do something.
(5) In paragraph (3)(a),
reference to concealing or disguising property includes concealing or
disguising its nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership or
any rights with respect to it.
(6) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 14 years or a fine, or both.
16A Insuring against
payments made in response to terrorist demands[24]
(1) It is an offence for a
person who is an insurer under an insurance contract to make a payment under
that contract, or purportedly under it, if –
(a) the
payment is made in respect of any property which has been, or is to be,
transferred to any person in response to a demand made wholly or partly for the
purposes of terrorism; and
(b) the
insurer or other person authorizing the payment on the insurer’s behalf
knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the property has been, or is to
be, transferred in response to such a demand.
(2) In paragraph (1), “insurance
contract” means a contract under which one party accepts significant
insurance risk from another party (the “policy holder”) by agreeing
to compensate the policy holder if a specified uncertain future event affects
the policy holder.
(3) This Article applies to
any payment made by an insurer on or after the day on which this Article comes
into force, even if the payment is made –
(a) under,
or purportedly under, a contract entered into before that day; or
(b) in
respect of money or other property transferred within the period of
40 days ending on that day.
(4) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 14 years or to a fine, or both.
17 Articles 15,
16 and 16A: jurisdiction[25]
(1) A person who does
anything outside Jersey which, if it were done in Jersey, would constitute an
offence under Article 15, 16 or 16A, may be charged with that offence and
if found guilty shall be liable to the penalty provided for that offence.[26]
(2) For the purposes of
this Article, Article 16(3)(b) shall be read as if for “Jersey”
there were substituted “a country or place outside Jersey”.
18 Offences
under Articles 15, 16 and 16A: co-operation with the FIU or police[27]
(1) No offence is committed
under Article 15, 16 or 16A if a person acting with the express consent of
an officer of the Force or customs officer does anything which would, apart
from this paragraph, amount to the commission of an offence under either of
those Articles.[28]
(2) No offence is committed
under Article 15, 16 or 16A if a person involved in a transaction or
arrangement relating to property discloses, in accordance with the conditions
set out in paragraph (4) –
(a) a
suspicion or belief that the property is terrorist property; and
(b) the
information on which the suspicion or belief is based.[29]
(3) No offence is committed
under Article 15(2)(b) if a person involved in a transaction or
arrangement relating to the provision of a financial service discloses, in
accordance with the conditions set out in paragraph (4) –
(a) a
suspicion or belief that the service is being or to be provided for the
purposes of terrorism or for the support of a terrorist entity; and
(b) the
information on which the suspicion or belief is based.
(4) The conditions
mentioned in paragraph (2) and (3) are that the disclosure is
made –
(a) after
the person became involved in the transaction or arrangement to which the
disclosure relates (“the relevant transaction”);
(b) to the
FIU;
(c) in
good faith and on the person’s own initiative; and
(d) as soon
as reasonably practicable.[30]
(5) The defences provided
by paragraphs (2) and (3) cease to apply if –
(a) the
FIU forbids the person to continue involvement in the relevant transaction; but
(b) the
person continues to be involved.[31]
(6) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under Article 15 or 16 to prove that
the person –
(a) intended
to make a disclosure to which paragraph (2) or (3) applies; and
(b) has
reasonable excuse for failing to do so.
(7) Paragraph (8)
applies where –
(a) a
person is employed by any other person (“the employer”); and
(b) the
employer has established procedures for the making of disclosures to which
paragraph (2) or (3) would apply if such disclosure were made to the FIU.[32]
(8) Where this paragraph
applies, it is a defence for the employed person, if charged with an offence
under Article 15 or 16, to prove that a disclosure was made by the
person in good faith and in accordance with the employer’s procedures.
19 General
duty of disclosure of information[33]
(1) This Article applies,
subject to paragraph (2), where –
(a) a
person (“A”) believes or suspects that another person has committed
an offence under Article 15, 16 or 16A; and
(b) the
basis for that belief or suspicion is information which comes to A’s
attention in the course of A’s trade, profession, business or employment.[34]
(2) This Article does not
apply where the information mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) comes to A in
the course of business of a financial institution (in which case Article 21
shall apply).
(3) Where this Article
applies, A must disclose, in accordance with the conditions set out in
paragraph (4) –
(a) the
belief or suspicion mentioned in paragraph (1)(a); and
(b) the
information on which that belief or suspicion is based,
and if A does not make such a disclosure, A commits an offence.
(4) The conditions
mentioned in paragraph (3) are that the disclosure is made –
(a) to the
FIU;
(b) in
good faith; and
(c) as
soon as practicable after the information came to A’s attention.[35]
(5) A does not commit an offence
under paragraph (3) if –
(a) A has
a reasonable excuse for not making a disclosure of information; or
(b) A is
a professional legal adviser and the information or other matter is an item
subject to legal privilege.[36]
(6) Where A is a
professional legal adviser, nothing in this Article requires A to disclose an
item subject to legal privilege or any belief or suspicion based on information
contained in an item subject to legal privilege.[37]
(7) [38]
(8) [39]
(9) Paragraph (10)
applies where –
(a) a
person is employed by any other person except a financial institution (“the
employer”); and
(b) the
employer has established procedures for the making of disclosures of the
matters specified in paragraph (3).
(10) Where this paragraph applies,
it is a defence for the employed person, if charged with an offence under
paragraph (3), to prove that a disclosure of matters specified in that
paragraph was made by the person in good faith and in accordance with the
employer’s procedures.
(11) A person guilty of an offence
under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
5 years or to a fine, or both.
20 Disclosure
of information: immunity[40]
(1) This Article applies to
a disclosure made in good faith to which either paragraph (2) or paragraph (3)
applies, and which is made –
(a) to the
FIU; or
(b) where
the person making the disclosure is employed by another person, in accordance
with any procedures established by the employer for the making of such
disclosures.[41]
(2) This paragraph applies
to a disclosure made in the circumstances mentioned in Article 19(1)(a)
and (b).
(3) This paragraph applies
to a disclosure of –
(a) a
person’s suspicion or belief that any property is, or is derived from,
terrorist property; and
(b) any
matter on which that suspicion or belief is based.
(4) A disclosure to which
this Article applies shall not be treated as a breach of any restriction on the
disclosure of information imposed by any enactment or contract or otherwise.
21[42] Failure to disclose: financial institutions
(1) This Article applies
where the conditions in both paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) are
fulfilled.[43]
(2) The first condition is
that a person (“A”) knows, suspects or has reasonable grounds for
suspecting that –
(a) another
person has committed an offence under Article 15, 16 or 16A; or
(b) any
property is or may be terrorist property.[44]
(3) The second condition is
that the information or other matter on which A’s knowledge or suspicion
is based, or which gives reasonable grounds for such suspicion, came to A in
the course of business of a financial institution.[45]
(4) Where this Article
applies, A must disclose, in accordance with the conditions set out in
paragraph (4A) –
(a) the
knowledge, suspicion or grounds for suspicion mentioned in paragraph (2);
and
(b) the
information or other matter mentioned in paragraph (3),
and if A does not make such a disclosure, A commits an offence.[46]
(4A) The conditions mentioned in
paragraph (4) are that the disclosure is made –
(a) to the
FIU or a nominated officer;
(b) in good
faith; and
(c) as
soon as is practicable after the information or other matter comes to A.[47]
(5) But a person does not
commit an offence under this Article if –
(a) the
person has a reasonable excuse for not disclosing the information or other
matter;
(b) the
person is a professional legal adviser and the information or other matter is
an item subject to legal privilege.[48]
(5A) A person does not commit an offence
under this Article by failing to disclose any information or other matter that
has come to his or her attention, if –
(a) it
comes to the person in the course of his or her employment in the financial
institution;
(b) the
financial institution was required by an Order made under Article 37 of
the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey)
Law 1999 to provide the employee with training, but had not done so;
(c) the
training, if it had been given, would have been material; and
(d) the
employee does not know or suspect that the other person concerned had committed
an offence under Article 15, 16 or 16A.[49]
(6) In deciding whether a
person has committed an offence under this Article, the court –
(a) shall
take account of any relevant Code of Practice or guidance that applies to that
person or the business carried on by that person and is issued by the
supervisory body exercising supervisory functions in respect of that person; or
(b) if no
such Code of Practice or guidance applies, shall take into account any relevant
Code of Practice or guidance that is issued by another supervisory body; or
(c) if
there is no such relevant Code of Practice or guidance, may take account of any
other relevant guidance issued by a body that is representative of that person
or any Schedule 2 business carried on by that person.[50]
(6A) For the purposes of paragraph (6),
“Code of Practice”; “supervisory body”,
“supervisory functions” and “Schedule 2 business”
have the same meaning as in the Proceeds of Crime
(Supervisory Bodies) (Jersey) Law 2008.[51]
(7) A disclosure to a
nominated officer is a disclosure which –
(a) is
made to a person nominated by the employer of the person making the disclosure
to receive disclosures under this Article; and
(b) is
made in the course of the discloser’s employment and in accordance with
the procedure established by the employer for the purpose. [52]
(8) [53]
(9) [54]
(10) For the purposes of paragraph (2),
a person is to be taken to have committed an offence there mentioned
if –
(a) the
person has taken action or been in possession of a thing; and
(b) the
person would have committed the offence if he or she had been in Jersey at the
time when he or she took the action or was in possession of the thing.
(11) A person guilty of an offence
under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
5 years or to a fine, or both.
22[55] Protected disclosures
(1) A disclosure which
satisfies the following 3 conditions is not to be taken to breach any
restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed).
(2) The first condition is
that the information or other matter disclosed came to the person making the
disclosure in the course of the business of a financial institution.[56]
(3) The second condition is
that the information or other matter –
(a) causes
the discloser to know or suspect; or
(b) gives
him or her reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting,
that another person has committed an offence under Article 15,
16 or 16A.[57]
(4) The third condition is
that the disclosure is made to the FIU or a nominated officer in good faith and
as soon as is practicable after the information or other matter comes to the
discloser.[58]
(5) A disclosure to a
nominated officer is a disclosure which –
(a) is
made to a person nominated by the discloser’s employer to receive
disclosures under this Article; and
(b) is
made in the course of the discloser’s employment and in accordance with
the procedure established by the employer for the purpose.
23 Restrictions
on disclosure[59]
(1) Information which is
disclosed to the FIU as described in any provision of Articles 18, 19, 20
or 22 shall not be disclosed by the FIU, or by any person who obtains the
information directly or indirectly from the FIU, unless its disclosure is
permitted under Article 24 or 25.[60]
(2) A person who
contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to
imprisonment for a term of 6 months and to a fine.[61]
(3) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under this Article to prove that the person took
all reasonable steps and exercised due diligence to avoid committing the
offence.
24 Disclosure
for purposes within Jersey[62]
(1) Article 23 does
not prohibit the disclosure of information to a person in Jersey for the
purposes of the investigation of crime in Jersey or of criminal proceedings in
Jersey.[63]
(2) Article 23 does
not prohibit the disclosure of information, for other purposes in Jersey,
to –
(a) the
Attorney General;
(b) the
Jersey Financial Services Commission;
(ba) the FIU;
(c) an
officer of the Force or customs officer.
(d) [64]
(3) In this Article, “Jersey
Financial Services Commission” means the Commission established under the
Financial Services Commission
(Jersey) Law 1998.[65]
25 Disclosure
for purposes outside Jersey[66]
(1) Article 23 does
not prohibit the disclosure of information if –
(a)
(b) the
information is disclosed –
(i) for the purposes
of the investigation of crime outside Jersey or of criminal proceedings outside
Jersey, or
(ii) to
an authority outside Jersey which is a competent authority for the purposes of
Article 3(3) of the Investigation of Fraud
(Jersey) Law 1991.[67]
(2) [68]
(3) [69]
(4) [70]
26 [71]
Forfeiture
27 Forfeiture
of property used for purposes of terrorism[72]
(1) The court by or before
which a person is convicted of an offence under Article 15, 16 or 16A may
make a forfeiture order in accordance with the provisions of this Article.[73]
(2) Where the offence of
which the person is convicted is an offence under Article 15, the court
may order the forfeiture of any property which, at the time of the
offence –
(a) was
possessed or controlled by that person; and
(b) was
intended to be used, or there is reasonable cause to suspect would be used, for
the purposes of terrorism or for the support of a terrorist entity.
(3) Where the offence of
which the person is convicted is an offence under Article 16, the court
may order the forfeiture of the terrorist property in question.
(3A) Where the offence of which the
person is convicted is an offence under Article 16A, the court may order
the forfeiture of the amount paid under, or purportedly under, the insurance
contract.[74]
(4) Where a person other
than the convicted person claims to be the owner of or otherwise interested in
any property which may be forfeit by virtue of an order under this Article, the
court shall give that person an opportunity to be heard before making such an
order.
(5) Schedule 3 shall
have effect to make further provision as to orders under this Article.
PART 4
TERRORIST INVESTIGATION
Cordons
28 Cordoned
areas
(1) An area is a cordoned
area for the purposes of the Law if it is designated under this Article.
(2) A designation may be
made by an officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector and
only if he or she considers it expedient for the purposes of a terrorist
investigation.
(3) If a designation is
made orally, the officer making it shall confirm it in writing as soon as is
reasonably practicable.
(4) The officer making a
designation shall arrange for the demarcation of the cordoned area, so far as
is reasonably practicable –
(a) by
means of tape marked with the word “police”; or
(b) in
such other manner as an officer of the Force considers appropriate.
(5) An officer of the Force
who is not of the rank required by paragraph (2) may make a designation if
he or she considers it necessary by reasons of urgency.
(6) Where an officer of the
Force makes a designation in reliance on paragraph (5) he or she shall as
soon as is reasonably practicable –
(a) make
a written record of the time at which the designation was made; and
(b) ensure
that an officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector is
informed.
(7) An officer who is
informed of a designation in accordance with paragraph (6)(b) –
(a) shall
confirm the designation or cancel it with effect from such time as he or she
may direct; and
(b) shall,
if he or she cancels the designation, make a written record of the cancellation
and the reason for it.
29 Duration
(1) A designation under Article 28
has effect, subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), during the
period –
(a) beginning
at the time when it is made; and
(b) ending
with a date or at a time specified in the designation.
(2) The date or time
specified under paragraph (1)(b) must not occur after the end of the
period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the designation is made.
(3) The period during which
a designation has effect may be extended in writing from time to time
by –
(a) the
person who made it; or
(b) an
officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector.
(4) An extension shall
specify the additional period during which the designation is to have effect.
(5) A designation shall not
have effect after the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day
on which it is made.
30 Police
powers
(1) A police officer
may –
(a) order
a person in a cordoned area to leave it immediately;
(b) order
a person immediately to leave premises which are wholly or partly in or
adjacent to a cordoned area;
(c) order
the driver or person in charge of a vehicle in a cordoned area to move it from
the area immediately;
(d) arrange
for the removal of a vehicle from a cordoned area;
(e) arrange
for the movement of a vehicle within a cordoned area;
(f) prohibit
or restrict access to a cordoned area by pedestrians or vehicles.
(2) A police officer not in
uniform shall, if requested by a person given an order or affected by the
exercise of any other power under paragraph (1), produce proof of his or
her authority.
(3) A person commits an
offence if the person fails to comply with an order, prohibition or restriction
imposed by virtue of paragraph (1).
(4) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under paragraph (3) to prove that he or she
had a reasonable excuse for his or her failure.
(5) A person guilty of an
offence under paragraph (3) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard
scale, or both.
Information
and evidence
31 Powers
Schedule 5 shall have effect to confer powers required for the
purposes of a terrorist investigation.
32 Financial
information
Schedule 6 shall have effect to confer powers required to
obtain financial information.
33 Account
monitoring orders
Schedule 7 shall have effect to confer further powers to obtain
information regarding terrorist finance.
34 Information
about acts of terrorism
(1) This Article applies
where a person has information which he or she knows or believes might be of
material assistance –
(a) in
preventing the commission by another person of an act of terrorism;
(b) in
securing the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of another person, in Jersey,
for an offence involving the commission, preparation or instigation of an act
of terrorism.
(2) The person commits an
offence if he or she does not disclose the information as soon as reasonably
practicable in accordance with paragraph (3).
(3) Disclosure is in
accordance with this paragraph if it is made to the FIU or an officer of the
Force.[75]
(4) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under paragraph (2) to prove that he or she
had a reasonable excuse for not making the disclosure.
(5) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 5 years or to a fine, or both.
(6) Proceedings for an
offence under this Article may be taken, and the offence may for the purposes
of those proceedings be treated as having been committed, in any place where
the person charged is or has at any time been since he or she first knew or
believed that the information might be of material assistance as mentioned in paragraph (1).
(7) Where –
(a) a
disclosure is made; and
(b) a
failure to have made it would have constituted an offence under this Article,
the disclosure is not to be taken to breach any restriction on the disclosure
of information (however imposed).
35 Tipping
off and interference with material[76]
(1) Paragraph (2)
applies where a person knows or suspects that the Attorney General or any
police officer is acting or proposing to act in connection with a terrorist
investigation or proposed terrorist investigation.
(2) It is an offence for
the person –
(a) to
disclose to another person any information relating to the investigation; or
(b) to
interfere with material which is likely to be relevant to the investigation.
(3) Paragraph (4)
applies where a person knows or suspects that a disclosure has been or will be
made under any of Articles 18, 19 or 21.
(4) It is an offence for
the person –
(a) to
disclose to another person –
(i) the fact that
such a disclosure has been or will be made, or
(ii) any
information otherwise relating to such a disclosure;
or
(b) to
interfere with material which is likely to be relevant to an investigation
resulting from such a disclosure.
(5) The States may by
Regulations specify cases in which a disclosure or interference to which
paragraph (2) or (4) would otherwise apply shall not amount to the
commission of an offence.
(6) Paragraphs (2) and
(4) do not apply to a disclosure which –
(a) is
made by a professional legal adviser –
(i) to a client, or
to the client’s representative, in connection with the provision of legal
advice to the client, or
(ii) to
any person for the purpose of actual or contemplated legal proceedings;
(b) is
made by a person who is the client of a professional legal adviser to that
adviser, for either of the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)(i) or
(ii); or
(c) is
made by a person who is the client of an accountant to that accountant for the
purpose of enabling him or her to provide any of the services listed in paragraph 22(3)
of Schedule 2 to the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey)
Law 1999,
and is not made with a view to furthering a criminal purpose.[77]
(7) For the purposes of
paragraphs (2) and (4), interference with material includes falsifying,
concealing, destroying or disposing of the material or part of it.
(8) A person shall not be
guilty of an offence under paragraph (2) or (4) in respect of
anything done by the person in the course of acting in connection with the
enforcement, or intended enforcement, of any provision of this Law or of any
other enactment relating to terrorism or the investigation of terrorism.
(9) A person who is guilty
of an offence under this Article is liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 5 years or to a fine, or both.
(10) No prosecution shall be
instituted for an offence under this Article without the consent of the
Attorney General.
PART 5
COUNTER-TERRORIST POWERS
Suspected terrorists
36 Interpretation
of Part 5: “terrorist”
In this Part, “terrorist” means a person
who –
(a) has committed an
offence under any of Articles 12, 13, 15, 16, or 50 to 55;
(b) is or has been
concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism;
or
(c) is or has been
concerned in action facilitating the commission, preparation or instigation of
such an act.[78]
37 Arrest
and detention of suspected terrorists
(1) A police officer may
arrest a person whom he or she reasonably suspects to be a terrorist.
(2) Where a person is
arrested under this Article the provisions of Schedule 9 shall apply to
regulate his or her detention.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4)
to (7), a person detained under this Article shall (unless detained under any
other power) be released not later than the end of the period of 48 hours
beginning –
(a) with
the time of his or her arrest under this Article; or
(b) if the
person was being detained under Schedule 8 when he or she was arrested
under this Article, with the time when his or her examination under that Schedule
began.
(4) If on a review of a
person’s detention under Part 2 of Schedule 9 the review
officer does not authorize continued detention, the person shall (unless
detained in accordance with paragraph (5) or (6) or under any other power)
be released.
(5) Where a police officer
intends to make an application for a warrant under paragraph 25 of Schedule 9
extending a person’s detention, the person may be detained pending the
making of the application.
(6) Where an application has
been made under paragraph 25 or 32 of Schedule 9 in respect of a
person’s detention, he or she may be detained pending the conclusion of
proceedings on the application.
(7) Where an application
under paragraph 25 or 32 of Schedule 9 is granted in respect of a
person’s detention, he or she may be detained, subject to paragraph 33
of that Schedule, during the period specified in the warrant.
(8) The refusal of an
application in respect of a person’s detention under paragraph 25 or
32 of Schedule 9 shall not prevent his or her continued detention in
accordance with this Article.
38 Warrant
for search of premises for terrorist
(1) The Bailiff may on the
application of a police officer issue a warrant in relation to specified
premises if he or she is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for
suspecting that a person whom the police officer reasonably suspects to be a
terrorist is to be found there.
(2) A warrant under this Article
shall authorize any police officer to enter and search the specified premises
for the purpose of arresting the person referred to in paragraph (1) under
Article 37.
39 Search
of suspected terrorist
(1) A police officer may
stop and search a person whom he or she reasonably suspects to be a terrorist
to discover whether the person has in his or her possession anything which may
constitute evidence that the person is a terrorist.
(2) A police officer may
search a person arrested under Article 37 to discover whether the person
has in his or her possession anything which may constitute evidence that the
person is a terrorist.
(3) A search of a person
under this Article must be carried out by someone of the same sex.
(4) A police officer may
seize and retain anything which he or she discovers in the course of a search
of a person under paragraph (1) or (2) and which he or she reasonably
suspects may constitute evidence that the person is a terrorist.
Power
to stop and search
40 Authorization
to stop and search to prevent acts of terrorism
(1) An authorization under
this paragraph authorizes an officer of the Force in uniform to stop a vehicle
in an area or at a place specified in the authorization and to
search –
(a) the
vehicle;
(b) the
driver of the vehicle;
(c) a
passenger in the vehicle;
(d) anything
in or on the vehicle or carried by the driver or a passenger.
(2) An authorization under
this paragraph authorizes any officer of the Force in uniform to stop a
pedestrian in an area or at a place specified in the authorization and to
search –
(a) the
pedestrian;
(b) anything
carried by him or her.
(3) An authorization under paragraph (1)
or (2) may be given only if the person giving it considers it expedient for the
prevention of acts of terrorism.
(4) An authorization may be
given by an officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector.
(5) If an authorization is
given orally, the person giving it shall confirm it in writing as soon as is
reasonably practicable.
41 Exercise
of power
(1) The power conferred by
an authorization under Article 40(1) or (2) –
(a) may
be exercised only for the purpose of searching for articles of a kind which
could be used in connection with terrorism; and
(b) may
be exercised whether or not the officer of the Force has grounds for suspecting
the presence of articles of that kind.
(2) An officer of the Force
may seize and retain an article which he or she discovers in the course of a
search by virtue of Article 40(1) or (2) and which he or she reasonably
suspects is intended to be used in connection with terrorism.
(3) An officer of the Force
exercising the power conferred by an authorization may not require a person to remove
any clothing in public except for headgear, footwear, an outer coat, a jacket
or gloves.
(4) A search of a person
under this Article must be carried out by someone of the same sex.
(5) Where an officer of the
Force proposes to search a person or vehicle by virtue of Article 40(1) or
(2) he or she may detain the person or vehicle for such time as is reasonably
required to permit the search to be carried out at or near the place where the person
or vehicle is stopped.
(6) Where –
(a) a
vehicle or pedestrian is stopped by virtue of Article 40(1) or (2); and
(b) the
driver of the vehicle or the pedestrian applies for a written statement that
the vehicle was stopped, or that he or she was stopped, by virtue of Article 40(1)
or (2),
the written statement shall be provided.
(7) An application under paragraph (6)
must be made within the period of 12 months beginning with the date on
which the vehicle or pedestrian was stopped.
42 Duration
of authorization
(1) An authorization under Article 40
has effect, subject to paragraphs (2) to (7), during the
period –
(a) beginning
at the time when the authorization is given; and
(b) ending
with a date or at a time specified in the authorization.
(2) The date or time
specified under paragraph (1)(b) must not occur after the end of the
period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the authorization is
given.
(3) The officer who gives
an authorization shall inform the Minister as soon as is reasonably
practicable.
(4) If an authorization is
not confirmed by the Minister before the end of the period of 48 hours
beginning with the time when it is given –
(a) it
shall cease to have effect at the end of that period; but
(b) its
ceasing to have effect shall not affect the lawfulness of anything done in
reliance on it before the end of that period.
(5) Where the Minister
confirms an authorization the Minister may substitute an earlier date or time
for the date or time specified under paragraph (1)(b).
(6) The Minister may cancel
an authorization with effect from a specified time.
(7) An authorization may be
renewed in writing by any officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief
inspector and paragraphs (1) to (6) shall apply as if a new authorization
were given on each occasion on which the authorization is renewed.
43 Offences
(1) A person commits an
offence if he or she –
(a) fails
to stop a vehicle when required to do so by an officer of the Force in the
exercise of the power conferred by an authorization under Article 40(1);
(b) fails
to stop when required to do so by an officer of the Force in the exercise of
the power conferred by an authorization under Article 40(2);
(c) wilfully
obstructs an officer of the Force in the exercise of the power conferred by an
authorization under Article 40(1) or (2).
(2) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of
6 months and to a fine of level 3 on the standard scale.[79]
Parking
44 Interpretation
of Articles 45 to 48
In Articles 45 to 48 –
“disabled person’s badge” means such a badge
issued pursuant to an Order made under Article 60 of the Road Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1956;
“driver” means, in relation to a vehicle which has been
left on any road, the person who was driving it when it was left there;
“parking” means leaving a vehicle or permitting it to
remain at rest;
“parking place” means a place under the administration
of a public or parochial authority where vehicles may be parked;
“traffic sign” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1956.
45 Authorization
to prohibit or restrict parking
(1) An authorization under
this Article authorizes a police officer to prohibit or restrict the parking of
vehicles on a road specified in the authorization.
(2) An authorization may be
given only if the officer giving it considers it expedient for the prevention
of acts of terrorism.
(3) An authorization may be
given by an officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector.
(4) If an authorization is
given orally, the person giving it shall confirm it in writing as soon as is
reasonably practicable.
46 Exercise
of powers
(1) The power conferred by
an authorization under Article 45 shall be exercised by placing a traffic
sign on the road concerned.
(2) A
police officer exercising the power conferred by an authorization under Article 45
may suspend a parking place.
(3) Where a parking place
is suspended under paragraph (2), the suspension shall be treated as a
restriction imposed by Article 45 for the purposes of Article 56 of
the Road Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1956 and of any Order made under it.
(4) A police officer not in
uniform shall, if requested by a person affected by the exercise by him or her
of the power conferred by an authorization under Article 45, produce proof
of his or her authority.
47 Duration
of authorization
(1) An authorization under Article 45
has effect, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), during the period specified
in the authorization.
(2) The period specified
shall not exceed 28 days.
(3) An authorization may be
renewed in writing by the person who gave it or by a person who could have
given it and paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply as if a new authorization
were given on each occasion on which the authorization is renewed.
48 Offences
(1) A person commits an
offence if he or she parks a vehicle in contravention of a prohibition or
restriction imposed by virtue of Article 45.
(2) A person commits an
offence if –
(a) he or
she is the driver or other person in charge of a vehicle which has been
permitted to remain at rest in contravention of any prohibition or restriction
imposed by virtue of Article 45; and
(b) he or
she fails to move the vehicle when ordered to do so by a police officer.
(3) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under this Article to prove that he or she had a
reasonable excuse for the act or omission in question.
(4) Possession of a current
disabled person’s badge shall not itself constitute a reasonable excuse
for the purposes of paragraph (3).
(5) A person guilty of an
offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable to a fine of level 3 on
the standard scale.[80]
(6) A person guilty of an
offence under paragraph (2) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard
scale, or both.
Port
controls
49 Port
controls
(1) Schedule 8 shall
have effect to confer powers exercisable at ports.
(2) The States may by
Regulations repeal paragraph 13 of Schedule 8.
(3) The powers conferred by
Schedule 8 shall be exercisable notwithstanding the rights conferred by
section 1 of the Immigration Act 1971.
PART 6
FURTHER TERRORIST OFFENCES
50 Weapons
training
(1) Subject to paragraph (5),
a person commits an offence if he or she provides instruction or training in
the making or use of –
(a) firearms;
(b) radioactive
material or weapons designed or adapted for the discharge of any radioactive
material;
(c) explosives;
or
(d) chemical,
biological or nuclear weapons.
(2) Subject to paragraph (5),
a person commits an offence if he or she receives instruction or training in
the making or use of –
(a) firearms;
(b) radioactive
material or weapons designed or adapted for the discharge of any radioactive
material;
(c) explosives;
or
(d) chemical,
biological or nuclear weapons.
(3) Subject to paragraph (5),
a person commits an offence if he or she invites another to receive instruction
or training and the receipt –
(a) would
constitute an offence under paragraph (2); or
(b) would
constitute an offence under paragraph (2) but for the fact that it is to
take place outside Jersey.
(4) For the purpose of paragraphs (1)
and (3) –
(a) a
reference to the provision of instruction includes a reference to making it
available either generally or to one or more specific persons; and
(b) an
invitation to receive instruction or training may be either general or
addressed to one or more specific persons.
(5) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under this Article in relation to instruction or
training to prove that his or her action or involvement was wholly for a
purpose other than assisting, preparing for or participating in terrorism.
(6) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 10 years or to a fine, or both.
(7) A court by or before
which a person is convicted of an offence under this Article may order the
forfeiture of anything which the court considers to have been in the
person’s possession for purposes connected with the offence.
(8) Before making an order
under paragraph (7) a court must give an opportunity to be heard to any
person, other than the convicted person, who claims to be the owner of or
otherwise interested in anything which can be forfeited under that paragraph.
(9) An order under paragraph (7)
shall not come into force until there is no further possibility of it being
varied, or set aside, on appeal (disregarding any power of a court to grant
leave to appeal out of time).
(10) In this Article –
“biological weapon” means anything to which section 1(1)(b)
of the Biological Weapons Act 1974 of the United Kingdom, as it is
extended to Jersey by Order in Council, applies;
“chemical weapon” has the meaning given by section 1 of
the Chemical Weapons Act 1996 of the United Kingdom as it is extended to Jersey
by Order in Council;
“nuclear weapon” means a weapon which contains nuclear
material within the meaning of Article 1(a) and (b) of the Convention on
the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material opened for signature at Vienna and
New York on 3rd March 1980;
“radioactive material” means radioactive material
capable of endangering life or causing harm to human health.
51 Directing
terrorist organization
(1) A person commits an
offence if he or she directs, at any level, the activities of an organization
which is concerned in the commission of acts of terrorism.
(2) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article is liable to imprisonment for life.
52 Possession
for terrorist purposes
(1) A person commits an
offence if he or she possesses an article in circumstances which give rise to a
reasonable suspicion that his or her possession is for a purpose connected with
the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
(2) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under this Article to prove that his or her
possession of the article was not for a purpose connected with the commission,
preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
(3) In proceedings for an
offence under this Article, if it is proved that an article –
(a) was
on any premises at the same time as the accused; or
(b) was
on premises of which the accused was the occupier or which he or she habitually
used otherwise than as a member of the public,
the court may assume that the accused possessed the article, unless the
accused proves that he or she did not know of its presence on the premises or
that the accused had no control over it.
(4) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
10 years or to a fine, or both.
53 Collection
of information
(1) A
person commits an offence if –
(a) he or
she collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to
a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism; or
(b) he or
she possesses a document or record containing information of that kind.
(2) In this Article
“record” includes a photographic or electronic record.
(3) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under this Article to prove that he or she had a
reasonable excuse for his or her action or possession.
(4) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for term not
exceeding 10 years or to a fine, or both.
(5) A court by or before
which a person is convicted of an offence under this Article may order the
forfeiture of any document or record containing information of the kind
mentioned in paragraph (1)(a).
(6) Before making an order
under paragraph (5) a court must give an opportunity to be heard to any
person, other than the convicted person, who claims to be the owner of or
otherwise interested in anything which can be forfeited under that paragraph.
(7) An order under paragraph (5)
shall not come into force until there is no further possibility of it being
varied, or set aside, on appeal (disregarding any power of a court to grant
leave to appeal out of time).
54 Inciting
terrorism overseas
(1) A person commits an
offence if –
(a) he or
she incites another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly
outside Jersey; and
(b) the
act would, if committed in Jersey, constitute one of the offences listed in paragraph (2).
(2) Those offences
are –
(a) murder;
(b) grave
and criminal assault;
(c) malicious
damage to property.
(3) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to any penalty to which he or she
would be liable on conviction of the offence listed in paragraph (2) which
corresponds to the act which the person incites.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)
it is immaterial whether or not the person incited is in Jersey at the time of
the incitement.
(5) Nothing in this Article
imposes criminal liability on any person acting on behalf of, or holding office
under, the Crown.
55 Terrorist
bombing: jurisdiction
(1) If –
(a) a
person does anything outside Jersey as an act of terrorism or for the purposes
of terrorism; and
(b) his
or her action would have constituted the commission of one of the offences
listed in paragraph (2) if it had been done in Jersey,
he or she shall be guilty of the offence.
(2) The offences referred
to in paragraph (1)(b) are –
(a) an
offence under Article 2 or 3 of the Loi (1884) sur les
matières explosives;
(b) an
offence under section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974 of the United
Kingdom, as it is extended to Jersey by Order in Council;
(c) an
offence under section 2 of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996 of the
United Kingdom, as it is extended to Jersey by Order in Council.
PART 7
GENERAL
56 Police
powers
(1) A power conferred by
virtue of this Law on a police officer –
(a) is
additional to powers which he or she has at customary law or by virtue of any
other enactment; and
(b) shall
not be taken to affect those powers.
(2) A police officer may if
necessary use reasonable force for the purpose of exercising a power conferred
on him or her by virtue of this Law (apart from paragraph 2 of Schedule 8).
(3) Where anything is
seized by a police officer under a power conferred by virtue of this Law, it
may (unless the contrary intention appears) be retained only for so long as is
necessary in all the circumstances.
57 Exercise
of officers’ powers
An examining officer within the meaning of Schedule 8
may –
(a) enter
a vehicle for the purpose of exercising any functions conferred on him or her
by virtue of this Law; and
(b) use
reasonable force for the purpose of exercising a power conferred on him or her
by virtue of this Law (apart from paragraph 2 of Schedule 8).[81]
58 Powers
to stop and search
(1) A power to search
premises conferred by virtue of this Law shall be taken to include power to search
a container.
(2) A power conferred by
virtue of this Law to stop a person includes power to stop a vehicle (other
than an aircraft which is airborne).
(3) A person commits an
offence if he or she fails to stop a vehicle when required to do so by virtue
of this Article.[82]
(4) A person guilty of an
offence under paragraph (3) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of
6 months and to a fine.[83]
59 Defences
(1) Paragraph (2)
applies where in accordance with a provision mentioned in paragraph (5) it
is a defence for a person charged with an offence to prove a particular matter.
(2) If the person adduces
evidence which is sufficient to raise an issue with respect to the matter the
court or jury shall assume that the defence is satisfied unless the prosecution
proves beyond reasonable doubt that it is not.
(3) Paragraph (4)
applies where in accordance with a provision mentioned in paragraph (5) a
court –
(a) may
make an assumption in relation to a person charged with an offence unless a
particular matter is proved; or
(b) may
accept a fact as sufficient evidence unless a particular matter is proved.
(4) If evidence is adduced
which is sufficient to raise an issue with respect to the matter mentioned in paragraph (3)(a)
or (b) the court shall treat it as proved unless the prosecution disproves it
beyond reasonable doubt.
(5) The provisions in
respect of which paragraphs (2) and (4) apply are Articles 13(4), 35(5)(a),
50, 52 and 53 of this Law.
60 Evidence
(1) A document which
purports to be a notice or direction given under this Law by and signed on
behalf of the Minister or by the Lieutenant Governor shall be received in
evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be made or
given by them.
(2) A document bearing a
certificate or purporting to be signed on behalf of the Minister or by the
Lieutenant Governor, stating that the document is a true copy of such a notice
or direction mentioned in paragraph (1) shall, in any legal proceedings,
be evidence of the notice or direction.
61 Crown
servants, regulators, etc.
(1) The Minister may by
Order provide for any of Articles 15 to 22, 27 and 35 to apply to persons
in the public service of the Crown.[84]
(2) The Minister may by
Order provide for either or both of Articles 19 and 34 not to apply to
persons who are in the Minister’s opinion performing or connected with
the performance of regulatory, supervisory, investigative or registration
functions of a public nature.[85]
(3) Orders under this Article –
(a) may
make different provision for different purposes;
(b) may
make provision which is to apply only in specified circumstances; and
(c) may
make provision which applies only to particular persons or to persons of a
particular description.
62 [86]
63 Offences
by body corporate, etc.
(1) Where an offence under
this Law committed by a limited liability partnership, separate limited
partnership or body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent
or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part
of –
(a) a
person who is a partner of the partnership, or director, manager, secretary or
other similar officer of the body corporate; or
(b) any
person purporting to act in any such capacity,
the person shall also be guilty of the offence and, save as provided
in paragraph 8 of Schedule 6, liable in the same manner as the
partnership or body corporate to the penalty provided for that offence.[87]
(2) Where the affairs of a
body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (1) shall apply in
relation to acts and defaults of a member in connection with his or her
functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.
64 Consent
to prosecution
Proceedings for an offence under this Law shall not be instituted
without the consent of the Attorney General.
65 Orders
and Rules
(1) The
Minister may by Order amend the definition “financial institution”
in Article 1(1).
(2) The Minister may by
Order prescribe anything that shall or may be prescribed for the purposes of
this Law.
(3) [88]
66 [89]
67 [90]
68 Citation
This Law may be cited as the Terrorism (Jersey) Law 2002.[91]
Schedule 1[92]
(Article 6)
PROSCRIBED ORGANIZATIONS
The Irish Republican Army.
Cumann na mBan.
Fianna na hEireann.
The Red Hand Commando.
Saor Eire.
The Ulster Freedom Fighters.
The Ulster Volunteer Force.
The Irish National Liberation Army.
The Irish People’s Liberation Organisation.
The Ulster Defence Association.
The Loyalist Volunteer Force.
The Continuity Army Council.
The Orange Volunteers.
The Red Hand Defenders.
Al-Qa’ida (also known as the al-Nusrah Front or ANF, Jabhat
al-Nusrah li-ahl al Sham, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham).
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.
Harakat Mujahideen.
Jaish e Mohammed.
Lashkar e Tayyaba (also known as Jama’at ud Da’wa).
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Hizballah or Party of God, including the military wing of Hizballah,
the Jihad Council and all units reporting to it (including the Hizballah
External Security Organisation).
Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Shaqaqi.
Abu Nidal Organisation.
Islamic Army of Aden.
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) (PKK)
(also known as Kongra Gele Kurdistan and KADEK).
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party – Front (also
known as Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP-C, Revolutionary
People’s Liberation Party or DHKP, and Revolutionary People’s
Liberation Front/Armed Propaganda Units or DHKC/SPB).
Basque Homeland and Liberty (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) (ETA).
17 November Revolutionary Organisation (N17).
Abu Sayyaf Group.
Asbat Al-Ansar (also known as League of Partisans or Band of
Helpers, The Abu Muhjin group and Jama’at Nour).
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Jemaah Islamiyah.
Al Ittihad Al Islamia.
Ansar Al Islam.
Ansar Al Sunna.
Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain.
Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami.
Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (Bangladesh).
Harakat-ul-Mujahideen/Alami.
Islamic Jihad Union.
Jamaat ul-Furquan.
Jundallah.
Khuddam ul-Islam.
Lashkar-e Jhangvi.
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
Sipah-e Sahaba Pakistan (also known as Millat-e Islami Pakistan or
MIP, Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat or ASWJ and Lashkar-e Jhangvi).
Al-Ghurabaa (also known as Al Muhajiroun or ALM, Call to Submission,
Islam4UK, Islamic Path, London School of Sharia, Muslims against Crusades,
Need4Khilafah, the Shariah Project and the Islamic Dawah Association).
The Saved Sect or Saviour Sect (also known by the same names as
Al-Ghurabaa).
Baluchistan Liberation Army.
Teyrebaz Azadiye Kurdistan.
Tehrik Nefaz-e Shari'at Muhammadi.
Jammat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
Al Shabaab.
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan.
Indian Mujahideen.
Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan (Vanguard for the protection of
Muslims in Black Africa) (Ansaru).
Abdallah Azzam Brigades, including the Ziyad al-Jarrah Battalions.
Al Murabitun.
Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant.
Ansar al Sharia-Tunisia.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis.
Imarat Kavkaz (also known as Caucasus Emirate).
Jama’atu Ahli Sunna Lidda Awati Wal Jihad (also known as Boko
Haram).
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as Islamic State of
Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria;
Dawlat al-‘Iraq al-Islamiyya; Dawlat al Islamiya fi Iraq wa al Sham or
DAISh, the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham, Jaysh Khalid bin Walid or JKbW, Jaysh
Khalid bin al-Walid or KBW, and Khalid ibn-Walid Army or KBWA).
Kateeba al-Kawthar (also known as Ajnad al-sham and Junud ar-Rahman
al Muhajireen).
Minbar Ansar Deen (also known as Ansar Al-Sharia UK).
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
Turkiye Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi (also known as the Turkish
People’s Liberation Party, the Front of Turkey, THKP-C Acilciler, the
Hasty Ones and Mukavamet Suriye).
Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt).
Ansar al-Sharia-Benghazi (AAS-B) (which translates as the Partisans
of Islamic Law).
Jaysh al Khalifatu Islamiya (JKI) (which translates as the Army of
the Islamic Caliphate and as the Majahideen of the Caucasus and the Levant).
Jund al-Aqsa (JAA) (which translates as Soldiers of al-Aqsa).
Jund al Khalifa-Algeria (JaK-A) (which translates as Soldiers of the
Caliphate).
Haqqani Network (HQN).
Jamaat ul-Ahrar (JuA).
al-Ashtar Brigades, including Saraya al-Ashtar, Wa’ad Allah
Brigades, Islamic Allah Brigades, Imam al-Mahdi Brigades and al-Haydariyah
Brigades.
al-Mukhtar Brigades, including Saraya al-Mukhtar.
Ansaroul Islam (also known as Ansar ul Islam and Ansaroul Islam Lil
Irchad Wal Jihad).
Global Islamic Media Front or GIMF, including GIMF Bangla Team (also
known as Ansarullah Bangla Team or ABT and Ansar al-Islam).
Hasam, including Harakat Sawa’d Misr, Harakat Hasm and Hasm.
Mujahideen Indonesia Timur or MIT (also known as Mujahideen of
Eastern Indonesia).
Turkestan Islamic Party or TIP (also known as East Turkestan Islamic
Party or ETIP, East Turkestan Islamic Movement or ETIM and Hizb al-Islami
al-Turkistani or HAAT).
Jamaah Anshorut Daulah.
Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin or JNIM (also known as Nusrat
al-Islam, Nusrat al Islam-wal Muslimeen, including Ansar al-Dine or AAD, Macina
Liberation Front or MLF, al-Murabitun, al-Qa’ida in the Maghreb and
az-Zallaqa).
Liwa al-Thawra.
National Action (also known as Scottish Dawn, NS131 and National
Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action).
Note: The entry for The Orange Volunteers refers to the
organization which uses that name and in the name of which a statement
described as a press release was published on 14th October 1998.
Note: The entry for Jemaah Islamiyah refers to the organization
using that name that is based in south-east Asia, members of which were
arrested by the Singapore authorities in December 2001 in connection with a
plot to attack US and other Western targets in Singapore.
Schedule 2[93]
(Article 8)
THE PROSCRIBED ORGANIZATIONS APPEAL COMMISSION
1 Constitution
(1) The
Commission shall consist of members appointed by the Bailiff.
(2) The Bailiff shall
appoint one of the members as chairman.
(3) A member shall hold and
vacate office in accordance with the terms of his or her appointment.
(4) A member may resign at
any time by notice in writing to the Bailiff.
2 Officers, etc.
The Chief Minister may appoint officers and servants for the
Commission.
3 Expenses
The Minister for Treasury and Resources –
(a) may
pay sums by way of remuneration, allowances, pensions and gratuities to or in
respect of members, officers and servants;
(b) may
pay compensation to a person who ceases to be a member of the Commission if it
thinks it appropriate because of special circumstances; and
(c) may
pay sums in respect of expenses of the Commission.
4 Sittings
(1) The Commission shall
sit at such times and in such places as the Bailiff may direct.
(2) At each sitting of the
Commission –
(a) 3
members shall attend;
(b) one
of the members shall be an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal;
(c) the
chairman or another member nominated by him or her shall preside and report the
Commission’s decision.
5 Procedure
(1) The Bailiff may make
Rules –
(a) regulating
the exercise of the right of appeal to the Commission;
(b) prescribing
practice and procedure to be followed in relation to proceedings before the
Commission;
(c) providing
for proceedings before the Commission to be determined without an oral hearing
in specified circumstances;
(d) making
provision about evidence in proceedings before the Commission (including
provision about the burden of proof and admissibility of evidence);
(e) making
provision about proof of the Commission’s decisions.
(2) In making Rules the
Bailiff shall, in particular, have regard to the need to secure –
(a) that
decisions which are the subject of appeals are properly reviewed; and
(b) that
information is not disclosed contrary to the public interest.
(3) The Rules shall make
provision permitting organizations to be legally represented in proceedings
before the Commission.
(4) The Rules may, in
particular –
(a) provide
for full particulars of the reasons for proscription or refusal to deproscribe
to be withheld from the organization or applicant concerned and from any person
representing it or him or her;
(b) enable
the Commission to exclude persons (including representatives) from all or part
of proceedings;
(c) enable
the Commission to provide a summary of evidence taken in the absence of a
person excluded by virtue of clause (b);
(d) permit
preliminary or incidental functions to be discharged by a single member;
(e) permit
proceedings for permission to appeal under Article 9 to be determined by a
single member;
(f) make
provision about the functions of persons appointed under paragraph 7;
(g) make
different provision for different parties or descriptions of party.
(5) In this paragraph a
reference to proceedings before the Commission includes a reference to
proceedings arising out of proceedings before the Commission.
6 Conduct of proceedings
(1) This paragraph applies
to –
(a) proceedings
brought by an organization before the Commission; and
(b) proceedings
arising out of proceedings to which clause (a) applies.
(2) Proceedings shall be
conducted on behalf of the organization by a person designated by the
Commission (with such legal representation as he or she may choose to obtain).
(3) In paragraph 5, a
reference to an organization includes a reference to a person designated under
this paragraph.
7 Representation of excluded
person in proceedings
(1) The Attorney General
may appoint a person to represent the interests of an organization or other
applicant in proceedings in relation to which an order has been made by virtue
of paragraph 5(4)(b).
(2) A person shall not be
eligible for appointment under this paragraph unless he or she is an advocate
or solicitor of the Royal Court.
(3) A representative
appointed under this paragraph shall not be responsible to the organization or
other applicant whose interests he or she is appointed to represent.
(4) In paragraph 5, a
reference to a representative does not include a reference to a person
appointed under this paragraph.
8
Schedule 3[94]
(Article 27(5))
FORFEITURE ORDERS RELATING TO PROPERTY
1 Implementation and
enforcement
(1) Where
the Royal Court makes an order under Article 27 (in this Schedule referred
to as a “forfeiture order”) it may make an order –
(a) requiring
any property to which the forfeiture order applies to be paid or handed over to
the Viscount;
(b) directing
any such property other than money or immovable property to be sold or
otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Royal Court may direct and the
proceeds paid to the Viscount;
(c) directing
that any such property which is immovable property –
(i) shall vest in the
Viscount, subject to such conditions and exceptions as may be specified by the
Royal Court, and
(ii) shall
be realized by the Viscount in such manner as the Royal Court may further
direct;
(d) directing
a specified part of any property which is money, or of the proceeds of sale,
disposal or realisation of any property to be paid by the Viscount to or for a
specified person falling within Article 27(4);
(e) making
such other provision as appears to the Royal Court to be necessary for giving
effect to the forfeiture order or to any order made by virtue of clause (a),
(b), (c) or (d).
(2) A forfeiture order
shall not come into force until (disregarding any power of a court to grant
leave to appeal out of time) there is no further possibility of the order being
set aside.
(3) The balance of any sums
in the hands of the Viscount by virtue of an order made under sub-paragraph (1)
shall, after making payment (where appropriate) under sub-paragraph (1)(d),
be paid into the Criminal Offences Confiscations Fund established by Article 24
of the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey)
Law 1999.
(4) The Viscount shall, on
the application of Attorney General or the defendant in the proceedings in
which the forfeiture order was made, certify in writing the extent (if any) to
which, at the date of the certificate, effect has been given to the order in
respect of the property to which it applies.
(5) In this paragraph
references to the proceeds of sale, disposal or realisation of property are
references to the proceeds after deduction of the costs of sale, disposal or
realisation.
2 Liability etc. of Viscount
(1) Where the Viscount
takes any action –
(a) in
relation to property which is not subject to forfeiture being action which he
or she would be entitled to take if it were such property;
(b) believing,
and having reasonable grounds for believing, that he or she is entitled to take
that action in relation to that property,
the Viscount shall not be liable to any person in respect of any
loss or damage resulting from his or her action unless he or she is shown to
have acted negligently or in bad faith.
(2) The Viscount is
entitled to be paid his or her remuneration and expenses out of the proceeds of
realisation of the property.
3 Restraint orders
(1) The Royal Court may, in
accordance with this paragraph, by order (in this Schedule referred to as a
“restraint order”) prohibit any person, subject to such conditions
and exceptions as may be specified therein, from dealing with any property
liable to forfeiture, that is to say any property in respect of which a
forfeiture order has been made or could be made in any proceedings mentioned in
paragraph (3) or (4).
(2) A restraint order may
apply –
(a) to
all property in the possession of or under the control of a specified person,
whether the property is described or not;
(b) to
property coming into the possession of or under the control of a specified
person after the making of the order.
(3) A restraint order may
be made where –
(a) proceedings
have been instituted against a person for an offence under Article 15 or 16;
(b) the
proceedings have not been concluded; and
(c) either
a forfeiture order has been made or it appears to the Royal Court that a
forfeiture order may be made in the proceedings.
(4) A restraint order may
also be made where –
(a) a
criminal investigation has been started in Jersey with regard to an offence
under Article 15 or 16; and
(b) it
appears to the Royal Court that a forfeiture order may be made in any
proceedings for the offence.
(5) For the purposes of
this paragraph, dealing with property includes, without prejudice to the
generality of that expression –
(a) where
a debt is owed to the person concerned, making a payment to any person in
reduction of the amount of the debt; and
(b) removing
property from Jersey.
(6) In exercising the
powers conferred by this paragraph, the Royal Court shall not take account of
any obligations of any person having an interest in the property subject to the
restraint order which might frustrate the making of a forfeiture order.
(7) In this paragraph,
“criminal investigation” means an investigation which police
officers or other persons have a duty to conduct with a view to it being
ascertained whether a person should be charged with an offence.
(8) For the purposes of
this paragraph proceedings for an offence are instituted –
(a) when
the Bailiff issues a warrant in respect of the offence for the arrest of a
person who is out of Jersey;
(b) when
a person is arrested for and charged with the offence;
(c) when
a summons in respect of the offence is served on a person in accordance with
Article 19 of the Criminal Procedure (Jersey)
Law 2018,
and where the application of this sub-paragraph would result in
there being more than one time for the institution of proceedings, they shall
be taken to be instituted at the earliest of those times.
(9) For the purposes of
this paragraph and paragraph 5(2) proceedings are concluded –
(a) when
a forfeiture order has been made in those proceedings and effect has been given
to it in respect of all the property to which it applies; or
(b) when
(disregarding any power of a court to grant leave to appeal out of time) there
is no further possibility of a forfeiture order being made in the proceedings.
4 Procedure for restraint
order
A restraint order –
(a) may
be made only on an application by or on behalf of the Attorney General;
(b) may
be made on an ex parte
application to the Bailiff in chambers (and references in paragraphs 3, 6 and 7
to the Royal Court shall be construed accordingly); and
(c) shall
provide for notice to be given to persons affected by the order.
5 Discharge or variation of
restraint order
(1) A restraint order may
be discharged or varied by the Royal Court on the application of a person
affected by it.
(2) A restraint order made
by virtue of paragraph 3(3) shall, in particular, be discharged on an
application under sub-paragraph (1) if the proceedings for the offence
have been concluded.
(3) A restraint order made
by virtue of paragraph 3(4) shall, in particular, be discharged on an
application under sub-paragraph (1) –
(a) if no
proceedings in respect of offences under Article 15 or 16 are
instituted within such time as the Royal Court considers reasonable; and
(b) if
all proceedings in respect of offences under Article 15 or 16 have
been concluded.
6 Effect of restraint order
(1) Where the Royal Court
has made a restraint order, an officer of the Force may seize any property
subject to the order for the purpose of preventing it from being removed from Jersey.
(2) Property seized under
this paragraph shall be dealt with in accordance with the Royal Court’s
directions.
7 Further effect and
registration of order affecting immovable property
(1) A restraint order in
respect of immovable property shall have effect as an injunction restraining
any person from disposing of or hypothecating the property.
(2) Where the Royal Court
makes a restraint order affecting immovable property in Jersey it shall direct
the Judicial Greffier, in accordance with Rules of Court, to place a copy of
the order, until it is discharged, in a file which shall form part of the
Public Registry.
8 Compensation
(1) Where –
(a) a
restraint order is discharged under paragraph 5(3); or
(b) proceedings
are instituted against a person for an offence under Article 15 or 16
and either –
(i) the proceedings
do not result in his or her conviction for any such offence, or
(ii) where
the person is convicted of one or more such offences, the conviction or
convictions are quashed, or the person is pardoned by His Majesty in respect of
the conviction or convictions concerned,
the Royal Court may, on application by a person who had an interest
in any property which was subject to a forfeiture or restraint order made in or
in relation to those proceedings, and subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3),
order compensation to be paid to the applicant if, having regard to all the
circumstances, it considers it appropriate to do so.
(2) The Royal Court shall
not order compensation to be paid in any case unless it is satisfied
that –
(a) there
is some serious default on the part of a person concerned in the investigation
or prosecution of the offence concerned; and
(b) the
applicant has suffered loss in consequence of anything done in relation to the
property by or in pursuance of a forfeiture order or restraint order.
(3) The amount of
compensation to be paid under this paragraph shall be such as the Royal Court
thinks just in all the circumstances of the case.
(4) Compensation payable
under this paragraph shall be paid out of the annual income of the States.
9 Enforcement of orders made
elsewhere in the British Islands
In the following provisions of this Schedule –
“an English order” means –
(a) an
order made in England or Wales under section 23 of the 2000 Act (an
“English forfeiture order”);
(b) an
order made under paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act (an
“English restraint order”); or
(c) an
order made under any other provision of Part I of that Schedule in
relation to an English forfeiture or restraint order;
“a Scottish order” means –
(a) an
order made in Scotland under section 23 of the 2000 Act (a
“Scottish forfeiture order”);
(b) an
order made under paragraph 18 of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act (a
“Scottish restraint order”); or
(c) an
order made under any other provision of Part II of that Schedule in
relation to a Scottish forfeiture or restraint order;
“a Northern Irish order” means –
(a) an
order made in Northern Ireland under section 23 of the 2000 Act (a
“Northern Irish forfeiture order”);
(b) an
order made under paragraph 30 of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act (a
“Northern Irish restraint order”); or
(c) an
order made under any other provision of Part III of that Schedule in
relation to a Northern Irish forfeiture or restraint order;
“an Islands order” means –
(a) an
order made in any of the Islands under a provision of the written law of that
Island corresponding to Article 26 of this Law;
(b) a
restraint order made in any of the Islands under a provision of the written law
of that Island corresponding to paragraph 3 of this Schedule;
(c) an
order made in any of the Islands under a provision of the written law of that
corresponding to any of the other foregoing paragraphs of this Schedule.
10 Procedures and enforcement for orders
made elsewhere in the British Islands
(1) An English, Scottish,
Northern Irish or Islands order shall, subject to this paragraph, have effect
in the law of Jersey but shall be enforced in Jersey only in accordance with
this paragraph and any rules of court as to the manner in which and the
conditions subject to which such orders are to be enforced in Jersey.
(2) The Royal Court shall
on an application made to it in accordance with rules of court for the
registration of an English, Scottish, Northern Irish or Islands order, direct
that the order shall, in accordance with such rules, be registered in the Royal
Court.
(3) Rules of court shall
also make provision –
(a) for
cancelling or varying the registration of an English, Scottish, Northern Irish
or Islands forfeiture order when effect has been given to it (whether in Jersey
or elsewhere) in respect of all or, as the case may be, part of the property to
which the order applies;
(b) for
cancelling or varying the registration of an English, Scottish, Northern Irish
or Islands restraint order which has been discharged or varied by the court by
which it was made.
(4) If an English,
Scottish, Northern Irish or Islands forfeiture order is registered under this paragraph,
the Royal Court shall have in relation to that order, the same powers as it has
under paragraph 1(1) in relation to a forfeiture order made by it (and paragraph 2
applies accordingly).
(5) The balance of any sums
received by the Viscount by virtue of an order made under sub-paragraph (4)
shall, after making payment (where appropriate) under paragraph 1(1)(d) or
2(2), be paid by him or her to the Treasurer of the States.
(6) Paragraphs 3(5), 6 and
7 apply to a registered English, Scottish, Northern Irish or Islands restraint
order as they apply to a restraint order, and the Royal Court shall have the
same power to make an order for or in relation to the arrest of any property in
relation to proceedings brought or likely to be brought for an English,
Scottish, Northern Irish or Islands restraint order as it would have if those
proceedings had been brought or were likely to be brought in the Royal Court.
(7) Without prejudice to
the foregoing provisions, if an English, Scottish, Northern Irish or Islands
order is registered under this paragraph –
(a) the
Royal Court shall have in relation to its enforcement, the same power;
(b) proceedings
for or in respect of its enforcement may be taken; and
(c) proceedings
for or in respect of any contravention of it (whether before or after such
registration) may be taken,
as if the order had originally been made in the Royal Court.
(8) The Royal Court may
additionally, for the purpose of –
(a) assisting
the achievement in Jersey of the purposes of an English, Scottish, Northern
Irish or Islands order; or
(b) assisting
any receiver or other person directed by any such order to sell or otherwise
dispose of property,
make such orders or do otherwise as seems to it appropriate.
(9) A document which
purports to be a copy of an English, Scottish, Northern Irish or Islands order
and which purports to be certified as such by a proper officer of the court by
which it was made and a document which purports to be a certificate for purposes
corresponding to those of paragraph 1(4) and which purports to be
certified by a proper officer of the court concerned shall, in the Islands be
received in evidence without further proof.
(10) The power to make rules of
court under Article 13 of the Royal Court (Jersey)
Law 1948 shall include power to make rules for the purposes of this paragraph.
11 Enforcement of external orders
(1) The States may by
Regulations make provision for the purpose of enabling the enforcement in Jersey
of external orders.
(2) An “external
order” means an order –
(a) which
is made in a country or territory outside Jersey; and
(b) which
makes relevant provision.
(3) “Relevant
provision” means –
(a) provision
for the forfeiture of terrorist property (“an external forfeiture
order”); or
(b) provision,
made in a country or territory outside Jersey, prohibiting dealing with
property –
(i) which is subject
to an external forfeiture order, or
(ii) in
respect of which such an order could be made in proceedings which have been or
are to be instituted in that country or territory (“an external restraint
order”).
(4) Regulations under this paragraph
may, in particular, include provision –
(a) which,
for the purpose of facilitating the enforcement of any external order that may
be made, has effect at times before there is an external order to be enforced;
(b) for
matters corresponding to those for which provision is made by, or can be made
under, paragraph 10(1) to (8) in relation to the orders to which that paragraph
applies;
(c) for
the proof of any matter relevant for the purposes of anything falling to be
done in pursuance of the Regulations.
(5) Regulations under this paragraph
may also make provision with respect to anything falling to be done on behalf
of Jersey in a country or territory outside Jersey in relation to proceedings
in that country or territory for or in connection with the making of an
external order.
(6) Regulations under this paragraph
may make different provision for different cases.
Schedule 4[95]
Schedule 5[96]
(Article 31)
TERRORIST INVESTIGATIONS: INFORMATION
Searches
1 Warrant for search of
premises
(1) An
officer of the Force may apply to the Bailiff for the issue of a warrant under
this paragraph for the purposes of a terrorist investigation.
(2) A warrant under this paragraph
shall authorize any officer of the Force –
(a) to
enter the premises specified in the warrant;
(b) to
search the premises and any person found there; and
(c) to
seize and retain any relevant material which is found on a search under clause (b).
(3) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (2)(c)
material is relevant if the officer of the Force has reasonable grounds for
believing that –
(a) it is
likely to be of substantial value, whether by itself or together with other
material, to a terrorist investigation; and
(b) it
must be seized in order to prevent it from being concealed, lost, damaged,
altered or destroyed.
(4) A warrant under this paragraph
shall not authorize –
(a) the
seizure and retention of items subject to legal privilege; or
(b) an
officer of the Force to require a person to remove any clothing in public
except for headgear, footwear, an outer coat, a jacket or gloves.
(5) Subject to paragraph 2,
the Bailiff may grant an application under this paragraph if
satisfied –
(a) that
the warrant is sought for the purposes of a terrorist investigation;
(b) that
there are reasonable grounds for believing that there is material on premises
specified in the application which is likely to be of substantial value,
whether by itself or together with other material, to a terrorist investigation
and which does not consist of or include items subject to legal privilege; and
(c) that
the issue of a warrant is likely to be necessary in the circumstances of the
case.
2 Extended power to issue
warrant for search of non-residential premises
(1) This paragraph applies
where an application is made under paragraph 1 and –
(a) the
application is made by an officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief
inspector;
(b) the
application does not relate to residential premises; and
(c) the
Bailiff is not satisfied of the matter referred to in paragraph 1(5)(c).
(2) The Bailiff may grant
the application if satisfied of the matters referred to in paragraph 1(5)(a)
and (b).
(3) Where a warrant under paragraph 1
is issued by virtue of this paragraph, the powers under paragraph 1(2)(a)
and (b) are exercisable only within the period of 24 hours beginning with
the time when the warrant is issued.
(4) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1),
“residential premises” means any premises which the officer making
the application has reasonable grounds for believing are used wholly or mainly
as a dwelling.
3 Search of premises within
cordoned area
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2),
an officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector may by a
written authority signed by him or her authorize a search of specified premises
which are wholly or partly within a cordoned area.
(2) An officer of the Force
who is not of the rank required by sub-paragraph (1) may give an
authorization under this paragraph if he or she considers it necessary by
reason of urgency.
(3) An authorization under
this paragraph shall authorize any officer of the Force –
(a) to
enter the premises specified in the authority;
(b) to
search the premises and any person found there; and
(c) to
seize and retain any relevant material (within the meaning of paragraph 1(3))
which is found on a search under clause (b).
(4) The powers under sub-paragraph (3)(a)
and (b) may be exercised –
(a) on
one or more occasions; and
(b) at
any time during the period when the designation of the cordoned area under Article 28
has effect.
(5) An authorization under
this paragraph shall not authorize –
(a) the
seizure and retention of items subject to legal privilege;
(b) an
officer of the Force to require a person to remove any clothing in public
except for headgear, footwear, an outer coat, a jacket or gloves.
(6) A person commits an
offence if he or she wilfully obstructs a search under this paragraph.
(7) A person guilty of an
offence under sub-paragraph (6) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the
standard scale, or both.
4 Order for production of
material
(1) An officer of the Force
may, for the purposes of a terrorist investigation, apply to the Bailiff for an
order under sub-paragraph (2) in relation to particular material or
material of a particular description.
(2) If on such an
application the Bailiff is satisfied on information on oath that the conditions
referred to in sub-paragraph (3) are fulfilled, the Bailiff may make an
order that the person who appears to the Bailiff to have in his or her
possession, custody or power the material to which the application relates
shall –
(a) produce
it to an officer of the Force for the officer to take away; or
(b) give
an officer of the Force access to it, within such period as the order may
specify or, if the material is not in that person’s possession, custody
or power (and will not come into his or her possession, custody or power within
that period), that the person shall state to the best of his or her knowledge
and belief where it is.
(3) The conditions referred
to in sub-paragraph (2) are –
(a) that
a terrorist investigation is being carried out and that there are reasonable
grounds for believing that the material is likely to be of substantial value
(whether by itself or together with other material) to the investigation for
the purpose of which the application is made;
(b) that
there are reasonable grounds for believing that it is in the public interest,
having regard –
(i) to the benefit
likely to accrue to the investigation if the material is obtained, and
(ii) to
the circumstances under which the person in possession of the material holds
it,
that the material should be produced or that access to it should be
given; and
(c) that
the material does not consist of or include items subject to legal privilege.
(4) An order under sub-paragraph (2)
may relate to material expected to come into existence or to become available
to the person concerned in the period of 28 days beginning with the date
of the order; and in this case the order shall require that person to notify a
named officer of the Force as soon as possible after the material comes into
existence or becomes available to that person.
(5) The period to be
specified in an order under sub-paragraph (2) shall be 7 days from
the date of the order or, in the case of an order made by virtue of sub-paragraph (4),
from the notification to the named officer of the Force, unless it appears in
either case to the Bailiff that a longer or shorter period would be appropriate
in all the circumstances.
(6) Where the Bailiff makes
an order under sub-paragraph (2)(b) in relation to material on any
premises, the Bailiff may, on the application of an officer of the Force, order
any person who appears to the Bailiff to be entitled to grant entry to the
premises to allow an officer of the Force to enter the premises to obtain
access to the material.
5 Rules of court for orders
under paragraph 4
(1) The power to make rules
of court under Article 13 of the Royal Court (Jersey)
Law 1948 shall include a power to make rules as to –
(a) the
discharge and variation of orders made under paragraph 4;
(b) proceedings
relating to such orders.
(2) Pending the making of
such rules –
(a) an
order under paragraph 4 may be discharged or varied by the Bailiff on a
written application made by any person subject to the order; and
(b) unless
the Bailiff otherwise directs on grounds of urgency, the applicant shall, not
less than 48 hours before making the application, send a copy of it and a
notice in writing of the time and place where it is to be made to the Attorney
General and to the officer of the Force on whose application the order to be
discharged or varied was made or to any other officer of the Force.
(3) Where the material to
which an application under paragraph 4 relates consists of information
contained in a computer –
(a) an
order under paragraph 4(2)(a) shall have effect as an order to produce the
material in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and
legible; and
(b) an
order under paragraph 4(2)(b) shall have effect as an order to give access
to the material in a form in which it is visible and legible.
(4) An order under paragraph
4 –
(a) confers
no right to production of, or access to, items subject to legal privilege;
(b) has
effect notwithstanding any obligation as to secrecy or other restriction on the
disclosure of information imposed by any enactment or otherwise.
(5) An order may be made
under paragraph 4 in relation to material in the possession, custody or control
of any Minister and any such order (which shall be served as if the proceedings
were civil proceedings against the Minister concerned) may require any officer
of an administration of the States for which that Minister is assigned
responsibility, whether named in the order or not, who may for the time being
have in his or her possession, custody or control the material concerned, to
comply with the order.
5A Transitional
arrangement for variation or discharge of certain orders made by Royal Court
(1) This paragraph applies
to an order made by the Royal Court under paragraph 4 before 5th May 2006.
(2) The Bailiff may vary or
discharge an order to which this paragraph applies.
(3) Pending the making of
rules of court in accordance with paragraph 5(1) –
(a) an
order to which this paragraph applies may be discharged by the Bailiff on a
written application made by any person subject to the order; and
(b) unless
the Bailiff otherwise directs on grounds of urgency, the applicant shall, not
less than 48 hours before making the application, send a copy of it and a
notice in writing of the time and place where it is to be made to the Attorney
General and to the officer of the Force on whose application the order to be
discharged or varied was made or to any other officer of the Force.
6 Explanations
(1) An officer of the Force
may apply to the Bailiff for an order under this paragraph requiring any person
specified in the order to provide an explanation of any material seized in
pursuance of a warrant under paragraph 1 or produced or made available to
an officer of the Force under paragraph 4.
(2) An order under this paragraph
shall not require any person to disclose any information which he or she would
be entitled to refuse to disclose on grounds of legal professional privilege.
(3) However, a lawyer may
be required to provide the name and address of his or her client.
(4) A statement by a person
in response to a requirement imposed by an order under this paragraph –
(a) may
be made orally or in writing; and
(b) may
be used in evidence against him or her only on a prosecution for an offence
under paragraph 7.
7 Offence
(1) A person commits an
offence if, in purported compliance with an order under paragraph 6, he or she –
(a) makes
a statement which the person knows to be false or misleading in a material
particular; or
(b) recklessly
makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular.
(2) A person guilty of an
offence under sub-paragraph (1) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 2 years or to a fine, or both.
8 Urgent cases: authority
for search
(1) An officer of the Force
of at least the rank of chief inspector may by a written order signed by him or
her give to any officer of the Force the authority which may be given by a
search warrant under paragraph 1.
(2) An order shall not be
made under this paragraph unless the officer has reasonable grounds for
believing –
(a) that
the case is one of great emergency; and
(b) that
immediate action is necessary.
(3) Where an order is made
under this paragraph, particulars of the case shall be notified as soon as is
reasonably practicable to the Minister, the Bailiff and the Attorney General.
(4) A person commits an
offence if he or she wilfully obstructs a search under this paragraph.
(5) A person guilty of an
offence under sub-paragraph (4) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term
of 6 months and to a fine of level 3 on the standard scale.
9 Urgent cases: explanations
(1) If an officer of the
Force of at least the rank of chief inspector has reasonable grounds for
believing that the case is one of great emergency the officer may by a written
notice signed by him or her require any person specified in the notice to
provide an explanation of any material seized in pursuance of an order under paragraph
8.
(2) Paragraph 6(2) to (4)
and paragraph 7 shall apply to a notice under this paragraph as they apply
to an order under paragraph 6.
(3) A person commits an
offence if he or she fails to comply with a notice under this paragraph.
(4) It is a defence for a
person charged with an offence under sub-paragraph (3) to show that he or
she had a reasonable excuse for his or her failure.
(5) A person guilty of an
offence under sub-paragraph (3) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term
of 6 months and to a fine.
10 Supplementary
(1) An application may only
be made under paragraph 1(1), 4 or 6 with the consent of the Attorney
General.
(2) An officer of the Force
may, if necessary, use reasonable force for the purpose of exercising any power
conferred on him or her by this Schedule.
(3) A search of a person
under this Schedule may only be carried out by a person of the same sex.
11 Interpretation
(1)
(2)
(3) In this Schedule, “dwelling”
means a building or part of a building used as a dwelling, and includes a
vehicle which is habitually stationary and is so used.
Schedule 6[97]
(Article 32)
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
1 Order
to provide customer information
(1) Where
an order has been made under this paragraph in relation to a terrorist
investigation, an officer of the Force named in the order may require a
financial institution to which the order applies to provide customer
information for the purposes of the investigation.
(2) The order may provide
that it applies to –
(a) all
financial institutions;
(b) a
particular description, or particular descriptions, of financial institutions; or
(c) a
particular financial institution or particular financial institutions.
(3) The information shall
be provided –
(a) in
such manner and within such time as the officer of the Force may specify; and
(b) notwithstanding
any restriction on the disclosure of information imposed by any enactment or
otherwise.
(4) An institution which
fails to comply with a requirement under this paragraph shall be guilty of an
offence.
(5) It is a defence for an
institution charged with an offence under sub-paragraph (4) to
prove –
(a) that
the information required was not in the institution’s possession; or
(b) that
it was not reasonably practicable for the institution to comply with the
requirement.
(6) An institution guilty
of an offence under sub-paragraph (4) shall be liable to a fine.
2 Who
may apply for order
An order under paragraph 1 may be made on the application of an
officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector.
3 Who
may make order
An order under paragraph 1 may be made only by the Bailiff.
4 Consent
required for application
An application for an order under paragraph 1 may only be made
with the consent of the Attorney General.
5 Rules
of court
The power to make rules of court under Article 13 of the Royal Court (Jersey)
Law 1948 shall include power to make provision about the procedure for an
application under paragraph 1.
6 Criteria
for making order
The Bailiff may only make an order under paragraph 1 if satisfied
that –
(a) the
order is sought for the purposes of a terrorist investigation;
(b) the
tracing of terrorist property is desirable for the purposes of the
investigation; and
(c) the
order will enhance the effectiveness of the investigation.
7 Customer
information
(1) In this Schedule
“customer information” means (subject to sub-paragraph (3)) –
(a) information
whether a business relationship exists or existed between a financial
institution and a particular person (“a customer”);
(b) a
customer’s account number;
(c) a
customer’s full name;
(d) a
customer’s date of birth;
(e) a
customer’s address or former address;
(f) the
date on which a business relationship between a financial institution and a
customer begins or ends;
(g) any
evidence of a customer’s identity obtained by a financial institution in
pursuance of or for the purposes of any legislation relating to money
laundering; and
(h) the
identity of a person sharing an account with a customer.
(2) For the purposes of
this Schedule “business relationship” means a business,
professional or commercial relationship between a financial institution and a
customer where that relationship is expected by the first person, at the time
when contact is established, to have an element of duration.
(3) The States may by
Regulations –
(a) provide
for a class of information to be customer information, or to cease to be
customer information, for the purposes of this Schedule; or
(b) extend
the meaning of the expression “business relationship” for the
purposes of this Schedule.
8 Offence
by body corporate, etc.
Where an individual is convicted of an offence under paragraph 1(4)
by virtue of this paragraph and Article 63, the individual shall be liable
to imprisonment for a term of 6 months and to a fine of level 3 on
the standard scale.
9 Self-incrimination
(1) Customer information
provided by a financial institution under this Schedule shall not be admissible
in evidence in criminal proceedings against the institution or any of its
officers or employees.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1)
shall not apply in relation to proceedings for an offence under paragraph 1(4)
(including proceedings brought by virtue of paragraph 8).
Schedule 7[98]
(Article 33)
ACCOUNT MONITORING ORDERS
1 Account monitoring orders
(1) The
Bailiff may, on an application made to him or her by an officer of the Force of
at least the rank of chief inspector, make an account monitoring order if he or
she is satisfied that –
(a) the
order is sought for the purposes of a terrorist investigation;
(b) the
tracing of terrorist property is desirable for the purposes of the
investigation; and
(c) the
order will enhance the effectiveness of the investigation.
(2) An application for an
order under sub-paragraph (1) may only be made with the consent of the
Attorney General.
(3) The application for an
account monitoring order must state that the order is sought against the
financial institution specified in the application in relation to information
which –
(a) relates
to an account or accounts held with the institution by the person specified in
the application (whether solely or jointly with another); and
(b) is of
the description so specified.
(4) The application for an
account monitoring order may specify information relating to –
(a) all
accounts that the person specified in the application for the order holds with
the financial institution so specified;
(b) a
particular description, or particular descriptions, of accounts so held; or
(c) a
particular account, or particular accounts, so held.
(5) An account monitoring
order is an order that the financial institution specified in the application
for the order must –
(a) for
the period specified in the order;
(b) in
the manner so specified;
(c) at or
by the time or times so specified; and
(d) at
the place or places so specified,
provide information of the description specified in the application
to an officer of the Force named in the order.
(6) The period stated in an
account monitoring order must not exceed the period of 90 days beginning
with the day on which the order is made.
2 Applications
(1) An application for an
account monitoring order may be made ex parte
to the Bailiff in chambers.
(2) The description of
information specified in an application for an account monitoring order may be
varied by the officer who applied for the order or another officer of the Force
of at least the rank of chief inspector.
3 Discharge or variation
(1) An application to
discharge or vary an account monitoring order may be made to the Bailiff
by –
(a) the
officer who applied for the order or another officer of the Force of at least
the rank of chief inspector;
(b) any
person affected by the order.
(2) The Bailiff may
confirm, vary or discharge the order.
4 Rules of court
The power to make rules of court under Article 13 of the Royal Court (Jersey)
Law 1948 shall include power to make provision as to the practice and
procedure to be followed in connection with proceedings relating to account
monitoring orders.
5 Effect of orders
(1) An account monitoring
order has effect in spite of any restriction on the disclosure of information
(however imposed).
(2) An account monitoring
order has effect as if it were an order of the Royal Court.
6 Statements
(1) A statement made by a
financial institution in response to an account monitoring order may not be
used in evidence against it in criminal proceedings.
(2) But sub-paragraph (1)
does not apply –
(a) in
the case of proceedings for contempt of court;
(b) in the
case of proceedings under Article 27 where the financial institution has
been convicted of an offence under Article 15 or 16;
(c) on a
prosecution for an offence where, in giving evidence, the financial institution
makes a statement inconsistent with the statement mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).
(3) A statement may not be
used by virtue of sub-paragraph (2)(c) against a financial institution
unless –
(a) evidence
relating to it is adduced; or
(b) a
question relating to it is asked,
by or on behalf of the financial institution in the proceedings
arising out of the prosecution.
Schedule 8[99]
(Article 49)
PORT CONTROLS
1 Interpretation
(1) In
this Schedule –
“captain” means master of a ship or commander of an
aircraft;
“examining officer” means any of the
following –
(a) a
police officer;
(b) an
immigration officer; or
(c) a
customs officer;
“port” includes an airport.
(2) A place shall be
treated as a port for the purposes of this Schedule in relation to a person if
an examining officer believes that the person –
(a) has
gone there for the purpose of embarking on a ship or aircraft; or
(b) has
arrived there on disembarking from a ship or aircraft.
2 Power to question
(1) An examining officer
may question a person to whom this paragraph applies for the purpose of
determining whether he or she appears to be a person falling within Article 36(b)
or (c).
(2) This paragraph applies
to a person if –
(a) the
person is at a port; and
(b) the
examining officer believes that the person’s presence at the port or in
the area is connected with the person’s entering or leaving Jersey.
(3) This paragraph also
applies to a person on a ship or aircraft which has arrived in Jersey.
(4) An examining officer
may exercise his or her powers under this paragraph whether or not he or she
has grounds for suspecting that a person falls within Article 36(b) or (c).
3 Requirement to give
information
A person who is questioned under paragraph 2 must –
(a) give
the examining officer any information in his or her possession which the
officer requests;
(b) give
the examining officer on request either a valid passport which includes a
photograph or another document which establishes the person’s identity;
(c) declare
whether the person has with him or her documents of a kind specified by the
examining officer;
(d) give
the examining officer on request any document which the person has with him or
her and which is of a kind specified by the officer.
4 Power to stop and detain
(1) For the purposes of
exercising a power under paragraph 2 an examining officer may –
(a) stop
a person or vehicle;
(b) detain
a person.
(2) For the purpose of
detaining a person under this paragraph, an examining officer may authorize the
person’s removal from a ship, aircraft or vehicle.
(3) Where a person is
detained under this paragraph the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 9
shall apply.
(4) A person detained under
this paragraph shall (unless detained under any other power) be released not
later than the end of the period of 9 hours beginning with the time when his or
her examination begins.
5 Search of ship or aircraft
For the purpose of satisfying himself or herself whether there are
any persons whom he or she may wish to question under paragraph 2 an
examining officer may –
(a) search
a ship or aircraft;
(b) search
anything on a ship or aircraft;
(c) search
anything which he or she reasonably believes has been, or is about to be, on a
ship or aircraft.
6 Search of person
(1) An examining officer
who questions a person under paragraph 2 may, for the purpose of
determining whether he or she falls within Article 36(b) or (c) –
(a) search
the person;
(b) search
anything which the person has with him or her, or which belongs to him or her,
and which is on a ship or aircraft;
(c) search
anything which the person has with him or her, or which belongs to him or her,
and which the examining officer reasonably believes has been, or is about to
be, on a ship or aircraft;
(d) search
a ship or aircraft for anything falling within clause (b);
(e) search
a vehicle;
(f) search
anything in or on a vehicle;
(g) search
anything which he or she reasonably believes has been, or is about to be, in or
on a vehicle.
(2) A search of a person
under this paragraph must be carried out by someone of the same sex.
7 Power to examine goods[100]
(1) An examining officer
may examine goods to which this paragraph applies for the purpose of determining
whether they have been used for the purposes of terrorism.
(2) This paragraph applies
to goods which have arrived in or are about to leave the Island on a ship or
aircraft, and for the purposes of this paragraph –
(a) goods
which are about to leave the Island on a ship include goods held at premises
operated by a sea cargo agent which are to be delivered to any place other than
those premises for carriage on a ship;
(b) goods
which are about to leave the Island on an aircraft include goods held at
premises operated by an air cargo agent which are to be delivered to any place
other than those premises for carriage on an aircraft; and
(c) “on
a ship” includes carriage within a vehicle carried on a ship.
(3) An examination under
this paragraph may be carried out only at –
(a) a
port;
(b) premises
operated by a sea cargo agent or an air cargo agent;
(c) a
location designated for that purpose by the Minister, under and in accordance
with sub-paragraph (4).
(4) The Minister may
designate a location for the purpose of examination under this paragraph only
if the Minister reasonably believes that it is necessary to designate that
location so that examining officers may exercise their functions under this
paragraph, and if the Minister does so he or she must maintain and publish a
list of designated locations.
(5) For the purposes of
determining whether to exercise his or her power under this paragraph, an
examining officer may –
(a) board
a ship or aircraft;
(b) enter
a vehicle;
(c) enter
premises operated by a sea cargo agent or an air cargo agent; and
(d) enter
a designated location.
(6) In this
paragraph –
“air cargo agent” has the meaning given by
section 21F(1) of the Aviation Security Act 1982 of the United
Kingdom as extended to Jersey by the Aviation Security (Jersey) Order 1993;
“goods” includes property of any description, and
containers;
“sea cargo agent” has the meaning given by
section 41(1) of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 of the
United Kingdom as extended to Jersey by The Maritime Security (Jersey)
Order 2014.
8 Person authorized to carry
out search etc.
(1) An examining officer
may authorize a person to carry out on his or her behalf a search or
examination under any of paragraphs 5 to 7.
(2) A person authorized
under this paragraph shall be treated as an examining officer for the purposes
of paragraphs 7(4) and 9 of this Schedule.
9 Detention of property
(1) This paragraph applies
to anything which –
(a) is
given to an examining officer in accordance with paragraph 3(d);
(b) is
searched or found on a search under paragraph 6; or
(c) is
examined under paragraph 7.
(2) An examining officer
may detain the thing –
(a) for
the purpose of examination, for a period not exceeding 7 days beginning
with the day on which the detention commences;
(b) while
he or she believes that it may be needed for use as evidence in criminal
proceedings; or
(c) while
he or she believes that it may be needed in connection with a decision by the
Lieutenant Governor whether to make a deportation order under the Immigration
Act 1971.
10 Designated ports
(1) This paragraph applies
to any journey to or from Jersey.
(2) Where a ship or
aircraft is employed to carry passengers for reward on a journey to which this paragraph
applies the owners or agents of the ship or aircraft shall not arrange for it
to call at a port in Jersey for the purpose of disembarking or embarking
passengers unless –
(a) the
port is a designated port; or
(b) an officer
of the Force, customs officer or immigration officer approves the arrangement.
(3) Where an aircraft is
employed on a journey to which this paragraph applies otherwise than to carry
passengers for reward, the captain of the aircraft shall not permit it to call
at or leave a port in Jersey unless –
(a) the
port is a designated port; or
(b) the
captain gives at least 12 hours’ notice in writing to an officer of
the Force.
(4) A designated port is a
port which appears in the Table at the end of this Schedule.
(5) The Minister may by
Order –
(a) add
an entry to the Table;
(b) remove
an entry from the Table.
11 Designation of control areas
(1) The Minister, after
consultation with the Lieutenant Governor, may by notice in writing to the
owners or agents of ships or aircraft –
(a) designate
control areas in any port in Jersey;
(b) specify
conditions for or restrictions on the embarkation or disembarkation of
passengers in a control area.
(2) Where owners or agents
of a ship or aircraft receive notice under sub-paragraph (1) in relation
to a port they shall take all reasonable steps to ensure, in respect of the
ship or aircraft –
(a) that
passengers do not embark or disembark at the port outside a control area; and
(b) that
any specified conditions are met and any specified restrictions are complied
with.
(3) The Minister may by notice
in writing to persons concerned with the management of a port (“the port
managers”) –
(a) designate
control areas in the port;
(b) require
the port managers to provide at their own expense specified facilities in a
control area for the purposes of the embarkation or disembarkation of
passengers or their examination under this Schedule;
(c) require
conditions to be met and restrictions to be complied with in relation to the
embarkation or disembarkation of passengers in a control area;
(d) require
the port managers to display, in specified locations in control areas, notices
containing specified information about the provisions of this Schedule in such
form as may be specified.
(4) Where port managers
receive notice under sub-paragraph (3) they shall take all reasonable
steps to comply with any requirements set out in the notice.
(5) The Minister shall
inform the Minister for Sustainable Economic
Development of any designations made and requirements imposed under this paragraph.
12 Duty of captain on arrival and
departure
(1) This paragraph applies
to a ship employed to carry passengers for reward, or an aircraft,
which –
(a) arrives
in Jersey;
(b) leaves
Jersey.
(2) The captain shall
ensure –
(a) that
passengers and members of the crew do not disembark at a port in Jersey unless
either they have been examined by an examining officer or they disembark in
accordance with arrangements approved by an examining officer;
(b) that
passengers and members of the crew do not embark at a port in Jersey except in
accordance with arrangements approved by an examining officer;
(c) where
a person is to be examined under this Schedule on board the ship or aircraft,
that he or she is presented for examination in an orderly manner.
(3) Where paragraph 27
of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971 applies, the requirements
of sub-paragraph (2)(a) are in addition to the requirements of paragraph 27
of that Schedule.
13 Carding
(1) The Minister may by
Order make provision requiring a person to whom this paragraph applies, if
required to do so by an examining officer, to complete and produce to the
officer a card containing such information in such form as the Order may
specify.
(2) An Order under this paragraph
may require the owners or agents of a ship or aircraft employed to carry
passengers for reward to supply their passengers with cards in the form
required by virtue of sub-paragraph (1).
(3) This paragraph applies
to a person –
(a) who
disembarks in Jersey from a ship or aircraft; or
(b) who
embarks in Jersey on a ship or aircraft.
14 Provision of passenger information[101]
(1) This paragraph applies
to a ship or aircraft which arrives or is expected to arrive in Jersey or
leaves or is expected to leave Jersey.
(2) If an examining officer
gives the owners or agents of a ship or aircraft to which this paragraph
applies a written request to provide specified information, the owners or
agents shall comply with the request as soon as is reasonably practicable.
(3) A request to an owner
or agent may relate –
(a) to a
particular ship or aircraft;
(b) to
all ships or aircraft of the owner or agent to which this paragraph applies; or
(c) to
specified ships or aircraft.
(4) Information may be
specified in a request only if it is of a kind which is prescribed by Order of
the Minister and which relates –
(a) to
passengers;
(b) to
crew; or
(c) to
vehicles belonging to passengers or crew.
(5) A passenger or member
of the crew on a ship or aircraft shall give the captain any information
required for the purpose of enabling the owners or agents to comply with a
request under this paragraph.
(6) Sub-paragraphs (2)
and (5) shall not require the provision of information which is required to be
provided under or by virtue of paragraph 27(2), 27B or 27BA of Schedule 2
to the Immigration Act 1971.
15 Offences
(1) A person commits an
offence if the person –
(a) wilfully
fails to comply with a duty imposed under or by virtue of this Schedule;
(b) wilfully
contravenes a prohibition imposed under or by virtue of this Schedule; or
(c) wilfully
obstructs, or seeks to frustrate, a search or examination under or by virtue of
this Schedule.
(2) A person guilty of an
offence under this paragraph shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard
scale, or both.
TABLE
DESIGNATED PORTS
Seaports
St. Helier, harbours
|
Gorey harbour
|
Airports
Schedule 9[102]
(Article 37 and Schedule 8)
DETENTION
PART 1
TREATMENT OF PERSONS DETAINED UNDER ARTICLE 37 OR SCHEDULE 8
1 Place of detention
(1) The
Minister shall designate places at which persons may be detained under Article 37
or Schedule 8.
(2) In this Schedule a
reference to a police station includes a reference to any place which the
Minister has designated under sub-paragraph (1) as a place where a person
may be detained under Article 37.
(3) Where a person is
detained under Schedule 8, the person may be taken in the custody of an
examining officer or of a person acting under an examining officer’s
authority to and from any place where his or her attendance is required for the
purpose of –
(a) his
or her examination under that Schedule;
(b) establishing
his or her nationality or citizenship; or
(c) making
arrangements for his or her admission to a country or territory outside Jersey.
(4) A police officer who
arrests a person under Article 37 shall take him or her as soon as is
reasonably practicable to the police station which the police officer considers
the most appropriate.
(5) In this paragraph
“examining officer” has the meaning given in Schedule 8.
2 Identification
(1) An authorized person
may take any steps which are reasonably necessary for –
(a) photographing
the detained person;
(b) measuring
him or her; or
(c) identifying
him or her.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1)
“authorized person” means any of the following –
(a) a
police officer;
(b) a
prison officer;
(c) a
person authorized by the Minister; and
(d) in
the case of a person detained under Schedule 8, an examining officer
(within the meaning of that Schedule).
(3) This paragraph does not
confer the power to take fingerprints, non-intimate samples or intimate samples
(within the meaning given by paragraph 16).
3 Recording of interviews
(1) The Minister
shall –
(a) issue
a code of practice about the audio recording of interviews to which this paragraph
applies; and
(b) make
an Order requiring the audio recording of interviews to which this paragraph
applies in accordance with any relevant code of practice under clause (a).
(2) The Minister may make
an Order requiring the video recording of interviews to which this paragraph
applies.
(3) An Order under sub-paragraph (2)
shall specify whether the video recording which it requires is to be silent or
with sound.
(4) Where an Order is made
under sub-paragraph (2) –
(a) the
Minister shall issue a code of practice about the video recording of interviews
to which the Order applies; and
(b) the
Order shall require the interviews to be video recorded in accordance with any
relevant code of practice under clause (a).
(5) Where the Minister has
made an Order under sub-paragraph (2) requiring certain interviews to be
video recorded with sound, the Minister need not, but may, make an order under sub-paragraph (1)(b)
in relation to those interviews.
(6) This paragraph applies
to any interview by an officer of the Force of a person detained under Article 37
or Schedule 8 if the interview takes place in a police station.
4 Code of practice – supplementary
(1) When the Minister
proposes to bring into operation a code of practice, the Minister shall prepare
and publish a draft of that code, shall consider any representations made to it
about the draft and may modify the draft accordingly.
(2) After the Minister has
complied with sub-paragraph (1), the Minister may bring the code into
operation by Order.
(3) The Minister may revise
a code and issue the revised code, and sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) shall
apply to a revised code as they apply to the first code brought into operation.
(4) The failure by an officer
of the Force to observe a provision of a code shall not of itself make him or
her liable to criminal or civil proceedings.
(5) A code shall be
admissible in evidence in all criminal proceedings, and if any provision of a
code appears to the court or tribunal conducting the proceedings to be relevant
to any question arising in the proceedings, it shall be taken into account in
determining that question.
5 Status
A detained person shall be deemed to be in legal custody throughout
the period of his or her detention.
6 Right to have someone
informed when detained
(1) Subject to paragraph 8,
a person detained under Article 37 or Schedule 8 at a police station
shall be entitled, if he or she so requests, to have one named person informed
as soon as is reasonably practicable that he or she is being detained there.
(2) The person named must
be –
(a) a
friend of the detained person;
(b) a
relative; or
(c) a
person who is known to the detained person or who is likely to take an interest
in his or her welfare.
(3) Where a detained person
is transferred from one police station to another, he or she shall be entitled
to exercise the right under this paragraph in respect of the police station to
which he or she is transferred.
7 Access to legal advice
(1) Subject to paragraph 8,
a person detained under Article 37 or Schedule 8 at a police station
shall be afforded facilities, if he or she so requests, to consult a legal
representative in private at any time, by telephone, in writing or in person.
(2) Where a request is made
under sub-paragraph (1), the request and the time at which it was made
shall be recorded.
8 Authority to delay rights
under paragraphs 6 and 7
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2),
an officer of the Force at least the rank of chief inspector may authorize a
delay –
(a) in
informing the person named by a detained person under paragraph 6;
(b) in
affording a detained person the facilities mentioned in paragraph 7(1).
(2) But where a person is
detained under Article 37 he or she must be permitted to exercise his or
her rights under paragraphs 6 and 7 before the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (3)
of that Article.
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (5),
an officer may give an authorization under sub-paragraph (1) only if he or
she has reasonable grounds for believing –
(a) in
the case of an authorization under sub-paragraph (1)(a), that informing
the named person of the detained person’s detention will have any of the
consequences specified in sub-paragraph (4); or
(b) in
the case of an authorization under sub-paragraph (1)(b), that the exercise
of the right under paragraph 7 at the time when the detained person
desires to exercise it will have any of the consequences specified in sub-paragraph (4).
(4) Those consequences
are –
(a) interference
with or harm to evidence of a serious offence;
(b) interference
with or physical injury to any person;
(c) the
alerting of persons who are suspected of having committed a serious offence but
who have not been arrested for it;
(d) the
hindering of the recovery of property obtained as a result of a serious offence
or in respect of which a forfeiture order could be made under Article 26;
(e) interference
with the gathering of information about the commission, preparation or
instigation of acts of terrorism;
(f) the
alerting of a person and thereby making it more difficult to prevent an act of
terrorism; and
(g) the
alerting of a person and thereby making it more difficult to secure a
person’s apprehension, prosecution or conviction in connection with the
commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
(5) An officer may also
give an authorization under sub-paragraph (1) if the officer has
reasonable grounds for believing that –
(a) the
detained person has committed an offence mentioned in Schedule 1 to the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey)
Law 1999;
(b) the
detained person has benefited from the offence within the meaning of that Law;
and
(c) by
informing the named person of the detained person’s detention (in the
case of an authorization under sub-paragraph (1)(a)), or by the exercise
of the right under paragraph 7 (in the case of an authorization under sub-paragraph (1)(b)),
the recovery of the value of that benefit will be hindered.
(6) If an authorization
under sub-paragraph (1) is given orally, the person giving it shall
confirm it in writing as soon as is reasonably practicable.
(7) Where an authorization
under sub-paragraph (1) is given –
(a) the
detained person shall be told the reason for the delay as soon as is reasonably
practicable; and
(b) the
reason shall be recorded as soon as is reasonably practicable.
(8) Where the reason for
authorizing delay ceases to subsist there may be no further delay in permitting
the exercise of the right in the absence of a further authorization under sub-paragraph (1).
9 Meaning of “serious
offence”[103]
(1) This paragraph has
effect for determining whether an offence is a serious offence for the purposes
of paragraph 8.
(2) The following offences
are always serious –
(a) any
offence of –
(i) treason,
(ii) murder,
(iii) manslaughter,
(iv)
(v) kidnapping,
(vi)
(vii)
(viii) gross indecency,
(ix) indecent
assault,
(x) publication of obscene
material,
whether under customary law or under any enactment;
(b) any
offence under –
(i) Articles 2
and 3 of the Loi (1884) sur les
matières explosives,
(ii) Articles 5
to 7, 9 to 12, and 14 to 18 of the Sexual Offences (Jersey)
Law 2018,
(iia) Articles 28,
29, 35 and 36 of the Sexual Offences (Jersey)
Law 2018, if the offence is against a child,
(iib) Article 40
of the Sexual Offences (Jersey)
Law 2018, if the relevant offence for the purpose of that Article is an
offence under a provision mentioned in sub-clause (ii) or (iia),
(iii) Articles 38
and 39 of the Firearms (Jersey)
Law 2000,
(iv) Section
1 of the Taking of Hostages Act 1982 of the United Kingdom as extended to Jersey
by Order in Council,
(v) Section 1 of the Aviation
Security Act 1982 of the United Kingdom as extended to Jersey by Order in
Council,
(vi) Section
1 of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 of the United Kingdom as
extended to Jersey by Order in Council,
(vii) Articles 23
and 26 of the Road Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1956,
(viii) Article 1 of
the Torture (Jersey)
Law 1990,
(ix) Article 2
of the Protection of Children
(Jersey) Law 1994,
(x) the Official Secrets (Jersey)
Law 1952;
(c) any
of the offences mentioned in the definition “drug trafficking” in
Article 1(1) of the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey)
Law 1978.
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4),
any other offence is serious only if its commission –
(a) has
led to any of the consequences specified in sub-paragraph (5); or
(b) is
intended or is likely to lead to any of those consequences.
(4) An offence which
consists of making a threat is serious if carrying out the threat would be
likely to lead to any of the consequences specified in sub-paragraph (5).
(5) The consequences
mentioned in sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) are –
(a) serious
harm to the security of the British Islands or to public order;
(b) serious
interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of
offences or of a particular offence;
(c) the
death of any person;
(d) serious
injury to any person;
(e) substantial
financial gain to any person;
(f) serious
financial loss to any person.
(6) Loss is serious for the
purposes of this paragraph if, having regard to all the circumstances, it is
serious for the person who suffers it.
(7) In this paragraph
“injury” includes any disease and any impairment of a
person’s physical or mental condition.
(8) Any offence of
conspiring or attempting to commit a serious offence or aiding, abetting,
counselling or procuring the commission of a serious offence is a serious
offence.
(9) The States may, by
Regulations, amend sub-paragraph (2)(a) and (b).
10 Direction regarding access to legal
advice
(1) A direction under this paragraph
may provide that a detained person who wishes to exercise the right under paragraph 7
may only consult a legal representative in the sight and hearing of a qualified
officer.
(2) A direction under this paragraph
may be given by an officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector
where the person is detained at a police station.
(3) A direction under this paragraph
may be given only if the officer giving it has reasonable grounds for believing
that, unless the direction is given, the exercise of the right by the detained
person will have any of the consequences specified in paragraph 8(4) or
the consequence specified in paragraph 8(5)(c).
(4) In this paragraph
“a qualified officer” means an officer of the Force who is of at least the rank of inspector and, in the
opinion of the officer giving the direction, has no connection with the
detained person’s case.
(5) A direction under this paragraph
shall cease to have effect once the reason for giving it ceases to subsist.
11 Fingerprints and samples
(1) Fingerprints may be
taken from the detained person only if they are taken by a police
officer –
(a) with
the appropriate consent given in writing; or
(b) without
that consent, under sub-paragraph (3).
(2) A non-intimate sample
may be taken from the detained person only if it is taken by a police
officer –
(a) with
the appropriate consent given in writing; or
(b) without
that consent, under sub-paragraph (3).
(3) Fingerprints or a
non-intimate sample may be taken from the detained person without the
appropriate consent only if he or she is detained at a police station and an
officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector authorizes the
fingerprints or sample to be taken.
(4) An intimate sample may
be taken from the detained person only if –
(a) he or
she is detained at a police station;
(b) the
appropriate consent is given in writing;
(c) an
officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector authorizes the
sample to be taken; and
(d) subject
to paragraph 14(2) and (3), the sample is taken by a police officer.
(5) Subject to sub-paragraph (6),
an officer may give an authorization under sub-paragraph (3) or (4)(c)
only if –
(a) in
the case of a person detained under Article 37, the officer reasonably
suspects that the person has been involved in an offence under any of the
provisions mentioned in Article 36(1)(a), and the officer reasonably
believes that the fingerprints or sample will tend to confirm or disprove his
or her involvement; or
(b) in
any case, the officer is satisfied that the taking of the fingerprints or
sample from the person is necessary in order to assist in determining whether he
or she falls within Article 36(1)(b).
(6) An officer may also
give an authorization under sub-paragraph (3) for the taking of
fingerprints if –
(a) he or
she is satisfied that the fingerprints of the detained person will facilitate
the ascertainment of that person’s identity; and
(b) that
person has refused to identify himself or herself or the officer has reasonable
grounds for suspecting that that person is not who he or she claims to be.
(7) If an authorization
under sub-paragraph (3) or (4)(c) is given orally, the person giving it
shall confirm it in writing as soon as is reasonably practicable.
(8) In this paragraph,
references to ascertaining a person’s identity include references to
showing that he or she is not a particular person.
12 Right to be informed
(1) Before fingerprints or
a sample are taken from a person under paragraph 11, the person shall be
informed –
(a) that
the fingerprints or sample may be used for the purposes of paragraph 15(3),
or checked against any fingerprints or samples or the information derived from
samples taken and contained –
(i) in records held
by or on behalf of the Force,
(ii) in
any similar records held by a police force elsewhere in the British Islands or
in Northern Ireland, or
(iii) in
any similar records held by any other police force or authority, body or person
specified pursuant to sub-paragraph (4);
(b) where
the fingerprints or sample are to be taken under paragraph 11(1)(a), (2)(a)
or (4)(b), of the reason for taking the fingerprints or sample.
(2) Before fingerprints or
a sample are taken from a person upon an authorization given under paragraph 11(3)or
(4)(c), the person shall be informed –
(a) that
the authorization has been given;
(b) of
the grounds upon which it has been given; and
(c) where
relevant, of the nature of the offence in which it is suspected that he or she
has been involved.
(3) After fingerprints or a
sample are taken under paragraph 11, there shall be recorded as soon as is
reasonably practicable any of the following which apply –
(a) the
fact that the person has been informed in accordance with sub-paragraphs (1)
and (2);
(b) the
reason referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b);
(c) the
authorization given under paragraph 11(3) or (4)(c);
(d) the
grounds upon which that authorization has been given; and
(e) the
fact that the appropriate consent has been given.
(4) The Minister may
prescribe, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iii) –
(a) any
police force of a country or territory outside the British Islands and Northern
Ireland;
(b) any person
or public authority in the British Islands or Northern Ireland having functions
which consist of or include the provision of criminal intelligence, the
prevention and detection of serious crime, the investigation of crimes and the
charging of offences;
(c) any
person or public authority of a country or territory outside the British
Islands and Northern Ireland whose functions correspond to those of a police
force or otherwise consist of or include the investigation of conduct contrary
to the law of that country or territory, or the apprehension of persons guilty
of such conduct;
(d) any
person with functions under any international agreement which consist of or
include –
(i) the investigation
of conduct which is unlawful under the law of one or more places, prohibited by
such an agreement or contrary to international law, or
(ii) the
apprehension of persons guilty of such conduct.
13 Intimate samples: further provisions
(1) This paragraph applies
where –
(a) 2 or
more non-intimate samples suitable for the same means of analysis have been
taken from a person under paragraph 11;
(b) those
samples have proved insufficient; and
(c) the
person has been released from detention.
(2) An intimate sample may
be taken from the person if –
(a) the
appropriate consent is given in writing;
(b) an
officer of the Force of at least the rank of chief inspector authorizes the
sample to be taken; and
(c) subject
to paragraph 14(2) and (3), the sample is taken by a police officer.
(3) Paragraphs 11(5) and (6)
and 12 shall apply in relation to the taking of an intimate sample under this paragraph
and a reference to a person detained under Article 37 shall be taken as a
reference to a person who was detained under Article 37 when the
non-intimate samples mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) were taken.
14 Inference from refusal of consent
(1) Where appropriate
written consent to the taking of an intimate sample from a person under paragraph 11
or 13 is refused without good cause, in any proceedings against that person for
an offence –
(a) the
court, in determining whether to commit him or her for trial or whether there
is a case to answer, may draw such inferences from the refusal as appear
proper; and
(b) the
court or jury, in determining whether that person is guilty of the offence
charged, may draw such inferences from the refusal as appear proper.
(2) An intimate sample
other than a sample of urine or a dental impression may be taken under paragraph 11
or 13 only by a person registered as a medical practitioner under the Medical Practitioners
(Registration) (Jersey) Law 1960 acting on the authority of a police officer.
(3) An intimate sample
which is a dental impression may be taken under paragraph 11 or 13 only by
a person registered as a dentist under the Dentistry (Jersey)
Law 2015 acting on the authority of a police officer.
(4) Where a sample of hair
other than pubic hair is to be taken under paragraph 11 the sample may be
taken either by cutting hairs or by plucking hairs with their roots so long as
no more are plucked than the person taking the sample reasonably considers to
be necessary for a sufficient sample.
15 Use of fingerprints or samples
(1) This paragraph applies
to –
(a) fingerprints
or samples taken under paragraph 11 or 13; and
(b) information
derived from those samples.
(2) The fingerprints,
samples or information may be used only for the purpose of a terrorist
investigation.
(3) The fingerprints,
samples or information may be checked, subject to sub-paragraph (2),
against –
(a) other
fingerprints or samples taken under paragraph 11 or 13 or information derived
from those samples;
(b) any
of the fingerprints, samples and information held by any police force,
authority, body or person mentioned in or specified for the purposes of paragraph
12(1)(a).
16 Interpretation of paragraphs 11 to 15
In the application of paragraphs 11 to 15 –
“appropriate consent” means –
(i) in relation to a
person who has attained the age of 17 years, the consent of that
person,
(ii) in
relation to a person who has not attained that age but has attained the age of
14 years, the consent of that person and his parent or guardian, and
(iii) in
relation to a person who has not attained the age of 14 years, the consent
of his parent or guardian;
“fingerprints” includes palm prints;
“insufficient” and “sufficient” in relation
to a sample, means sufficient or insufficient (in point of quantity or quality)
for the purpose of enabling information to be produced by the means of analysis
used or to be used in relation to the sample;
“intimate sample” means –
(i) a sample of
blood, semen or any other tissue fluid, urine or pubic hair,
(ii) a
dental impression,
(iii) a
swab taken from a person’s body orifice other than the mouth;
“non-intimate sample” means –
(i) a sample of hair
other than pubic hair,
(ii) a
sample taken from a nail or from under a nail,
(iii) a
swab taken from any part of a person’s body including the mouth but not
any other body orifice,
(iv) saliva,
(v) a footprint or a
similar impression of any part of a person’s body other than a part of his
hand.
PART 2
REVIEW OF DETENTION UNDER ARTICLE 37
17 Requirement for review
(1) A person’s detention
shall be periodically reviewed by a review officer.
(2) The first review shall
be carried out as soon as is reasonably practicable after the time of the
person’s arrest.
(3) Subsequent reviews
shall, subject to paragraph 18, be carried out at intervals of not more
than 12 hours.
(4) No review of a
person’s detention shall be carried out after a warrant extending his or
her detention has been issued under Part 3 of this Schedule.
18 Postponement
(1) A review may be
postponed if at the latest time at which it may be carried out in accordance
with paragraph 17 –
(a) the
detained person is being questioned by a police officer and an officer is
satisfied that an interruption of the questioning to carry out the review would
prejudice the investigation in connection with which the person is being
detained;
(b) no
review officer is readily available; or
(c) it is
not practicable for any other reason to carry out the review.
(2) Where a review is
postponed it shall be carried out as soon as is reasonably practicable.
(3) For the purposes of
ascertaining the time within which the next review is to be carried out, a
postponed review shall be deemed to have been carried out at the latest time at
which it could have been carried out in accordance with paragraph 17.
19 Grounds for continued detention
(1) A review officer may
authorize a person’s continued detention only if satisfied that it is
necessary –
(a) to
obtain relevant evidence whether by questioning the person or otherwise;
(b) to
preserve relevant evidence;
(c) pending
a decision whether to apply to the Lieutenant Governor for a deportation notice
to be served on the detained person;
(d) pending
the making of an application to the Lieutenant Governor for a deportation
notice to be served on the detained person;
(e) pending
consideration by the Lieutenant Governor whether to serve a deportation notice
on the detained person; or
(f) pending
a decision whether the detained person should be charged with an offence.
(2) The review officer
shall not authorize continued detention by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a)
or (b) unless he or she is satisfied that the investigation in connection with
which the person is detained is being conducted diligently and expeditiously.
(3) The review officer
shall not authorize continued detention by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(c)
to (f) unless he or she is satisfied that the process pending the completion of
which detention is necessary is being conducted diligently and expeditiously.
(4) In sub-paragraph (1)(a)
and (b) “relevant evidence” means evidence which –
(a) relates
to the commission by the detained person of an offence under any of the
provisions mentioned in Article 36(1)(a); or
(b) indicates
that the detained person falls within Article 36(1)(b).
(5) In sub-paragraph (1)
“deportation notice” means notice of a decision to make a
deportation order under the Immigration Act 1971.
20 Review officer
(1) The review officer
shall be an officer who has not been directly involved in the investigation in
connection with which the person is detained.
(2) In the case of a review
carried out within the period of 24 hours beginning with the time of
arrest, the review officer shall be an officer of the Force of at least the
rank of inspector.
(3) In the case of any
other review, the review officer shall be an officer of the Force of at least
the rank of chief inspector.
21 Directions by officer of higher rank
(1) This paragraph applies
when –
(a) the
review officer is of a rank lower than chief inspector;
(b) an
officer of higher rank than the review officer gives directions relating to the
detained person; and
(c) those
directions are at variance with the performance by the review officer of a duty
imposed on him or her under this Schedule.
(2) The review officer
shall refer the matter at once to the Chief Officer of the Force.
22 Representations
(1) Before determining
whether to authorize a person’s continued detention, a review officer
shall give either of the following persons an opportunity to make
representations about the detention –
(a) the
detained person; or
(b) any
legal representative representing him or her who is available at the time of
the review.
(2) Representations may be
oral or written.
(3) A review officer may
refuse to hear oral representations from the detained person if the review officer
considers that he or she is unfit to make representations because of his or her
condition or behaviour.
23 Rights
(1) Where a review officer
authorizes continued detention he or she shall inform the detained
person –
(a) of
any of his or her rights under paragraphs 6 and 7 which the detained person has
not yet exercised; and
(b) if
the exercise of any of his or her rights under either of those paragraphs is
being delayed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 8 of the fact
that it is being so delayed.
(2) Where a review of a
person’s detention is being carried out at a time when his or her
exercise of a right under either of those paragraphs is being
delayed –
(a) the
review officer shall consider whether the reason or reasons for which the delay
was authorized continue to subsist; and
(b) if in
his or her opinion the reason or reasons have ceased to subsist, the review
officer shall inform the officer who authorized the delay of his or her opinion
(unless he or she was that officer).
24 Record of review
(1) A review officer
carrying out a review shall make a written record of the outcome of the review
and of any of the following which apply –
(a) the
grounds upon which continued detention is authorized;
(b) the
reasons for postponement of the review;
(c) the
fact that the detained person has been informed as required under paragraph 23(1);
(d) the
officer’s conclusions on the matter considered under paragraph 23(2)(a);
(e) the
fact that he or she has taken action under paragraph 23(2)(b); and
(f) the
fact that the detained person is being detained by virtue of Article 37(5)
or (6).
(2) The review officer
shall –
(a) make
the record in the presence of the detained person; and
(b) inform
him or her at that time whether the review officer is authorizing continued
detention, and if he or she is, of his or her grounds.
(3) Sub-paragraph (2)
shall not apply where, at the time when the record is made the detained person
is –
(a) incapable
of understanding what is said to him or her;
(b) violent
or likely to become violent; or
(c) in
urgent need of medical attention.
PART 3
EXTENSION OF DETENTION UNDER ARTICLE 37
25 Warrant of further detention
(1) An officer of the Force
of at least the rank of chief inspector may apply to the Bailiff for the issue
of a warrant of further detention under this Part.
(2) A warrant of further
detention –
(a) shall
authorize the further detention under Article 37 of a specified person for
a specified period; and
(b) shall
state the time at which it is issued.
(3) The specified period in
relation to a person shall end not later than the end of the period of
7 days beginning –
(a) with
the time of his or her arrest under Article 37; or
(b) if the
person was being detained under Schedule 8 when he or she was arrested
under Article 37, with the time when his or her examination under that Schedule
began.
26 Time limit for application
(1) An application for a
warrant shall be made –
(a) during
the period mentioned in Article 37(3); or
(b) within
6 hours of the end of that period.
(2) The Bailiff hearing an
application made by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall dismiss the
application if he or she considers that it would have been reasonably
practicable to make it during the period mentioned in Article 37(3).
(3) For the purposes of
this Schedule, an application for a warrant is made when written or oral notice
of an intention to make the application is given to the Bailiff.
27 Notice of application
An application for a warrant may not be heard unless the person to
whom it relates has been given a notice stating –
(a) that
the application has been made;
(b) the
time at which the application was made;
(c) the
time at which it is to be heard; and
(d) the
grounds upon which further detention is sought.
28 Grounds for extension
(1) The Bailiff may issue a
warrant of further detention only if satisfied that –
(a) there
are reasonable grounds for believing that the further detention of the person
to whom the application relates is necessary to obtain relevant evidence
whether by questioning him or her or otherwise or to preserve relevant
evidence; and
(b) the
investigation in connection with which the person is detained is being
conducted diligently and expeditiously.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1)
“relevant evidence” means, in relation to the person to whom the
application relates, evidence which –
(a) relates
to the person’s commission of an offence under any of the provisions
mentioned in Article 36(1)(a); or
(b) indicates
that he or she is a person falling within Article 36(1)(b).
29 Representation
(1) The person to whom an
application relates shall –
(a) be
given an opportunity to make oral or written representations to the Bailiff
about the application; and
(b) subject
to sub-paragraph (3), may be legally represented at the hearing.
(2) The Bailiff shall
adjourn the hearing of an application to enable the person to whom the
application relates to seek legal representation where –
(a) the
person is not legally represented; and
(b) he or
she wishes to be so represented.
(3) The Bailiff may exclude
any of the following persons from any part of the hearing –
(a) the
person to whom the application relates;
(b) anyone
representing him or her.
(4) The Bailiff may, after
giving an opportunity for representations to be made by or on behalf of the
applicant and the person to whom the application relates, direct –
(a) that
the hearing of the application must be conducted; and
(b) that
all representations by or on behalf of a person for the purposes of the hearing
must be made,
by such means (whether a live television link or other means)
falling within sub-paragraph (5) as may be specified in the direction and
not in the presence (apart from by those means) of the applicant, of the person
to whom the application relates or of any legal representative of that person.
(5) A means of conducting
the hearing and of making representations falls within this sub-paragraph if it
allows the person to whom the application relates and any legal representative
of his or hers (without being present at the hearing and to the extent that
they are not excluded from it under sub-paragraph (3)) –
(a) to
see and hear the Bailiff and the making of representations to him or her by other
persons; and
(b) to be
seen and heard by the Bailiff.
(6) If the person to whom
the application relates wishes to make representations about whether a
direction should be given under sub-paragraph (4), the person must do so
by using the facilities that will be used if the Bailiff decides to give a
direction under that sub-paragraph.
(7) Sub-paragraph (2)
applies to the hearing of representations about whether a direction should be
given under sub-paragraph (4) in the case of any application as it applies
to the hearing of the application.
(8) The Bailiff shall not
give a direction under sub-paragraph (4) unless he or she has been
informed that facilities are available at the place where the person to whom
the application relates is held for the Bailiff to conduct a hearing by means
falling within sub-paragraph (5).
(9) If in a case where he
or she has power to do so the Bailiff decides not to give a direction under sub-paragraph (4),
the Bailiff shall state his or her reasons for not giving it.
30 Information
(1) The officer who has
made an application for a warrant may apply to the Bailiff for an order that
specified information upon which he or she intends to rely be withheld
from –
(a) the
person to whom the application relates; and
(b) anyone
representing him or her.
(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3),
the Bailiff may make an order under sub-paragraph (1) in relation to
specified information only if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for
believing that if the information were disclosed –
(a) evidence
of an offence under any of the provisions mentioned in Article 36(1)(a)
would be interfered with or harmed;
(b) the
recovery of property obtained as a result of an offence under any of those
provisions would be hindered;
(c) the
recovery of property in respect of which a forfeiture order could be made under
Article 26 would be hindered;
(d) the
apprehension, prosecution or conviction of a person who is suspected of falling
within Article 36(1)(a) or (b) would be made more difficult as a result of
his or her being alerted;
(e) the
prevention of an act of terrorism would be made more difficult as a result of a
person being alerted;
(f) the
gathering of information about the commission, preparation or instigation of an
act of terrorism would be interfered with; or
(g) a
person would be interfered with or physically injured.
(3) The Bailiff may also
make an order under sub-paragraph (1) in relation to specified information
if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that –
(a) the
detained person has committed an offence referred to in Schedule 1 to the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey)
Law 1999;
(b) the
detained person has benefited from the offence within the meaning of that Law;
and
(c) the
recovery of the value of that benefit would be hindered, if the information
were disclosed.
(4) The Bailiff shall
direct that the following be excluded from the hearing of the application under
this paragraph –
(a) the
person to whom the application for a warrant relates; and
(b) anyone
representing him or her.
31 Adjournments
(1) The Bailiff may adjourn
the hearing of an application for a warrant only if the hearing is adjourned to
a date before the expiry of the period mentioned in Article 37(3).
(2) This paragraph shall
not apply to an adjournment under paragraph 29(2).
32 Extensions of warrant
(1) An officer of the Force
of at least the rank of chief inspector may apply to the Bailiff for the
extension or further extension of the period specified in a warrant of further
detention.
(2) Where the period
specified is extended, the warrant shall be endorsed with a note stating the
new specified period.
(3) The specified period
shall end not later than the end of the period of 7 days
beginning –
(a) with
the time of the person’s arrest under Article 37; or
(b) if the
person was being detained under Schedule 8 when he or she was arrested
under Article 37 with the time when the person’s examination under
that Schedule began.
(4) Paragraphs 26(3)
and 27 to 30 shall apply to an application under this paragraph as they apply
to an application for a warrant of further detention.
(5) The Bailiff may adjourn
the hearing of an application under sub-paragraph (1) only if the hearing
is adjourned to a date before the expiry of the period specified in the
warrant.
(6) Sub-paragraph (5)
shall not apply to an adjournment under paragraph 29(2).
33 Effect of warrant or order
A warrant given or order made by the Bailiff under this Part of this
Schedule shall have effect as if it were an order of the Royal Court.
34 Detention - conditions
A person detained by virtue of a warrant issued under this Part
shall (unless detained in accordance with Article 37(5) or (6) or under
any other power) be released immediately if the officer having custody of him
or her becomes aware that any of the grounds under paragraph 28(1)(a) and (b)
upon which the Bailiff authorized his or her further detention have ceased to
apply.
Schedule 10[104]
(Article 2(1))
Terrorism offences
1 Aviation
Security (Jersey) Order 1993
(a) An
offence under any of sections 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 of the Aviation Security
Act 1982 as extended to Jersey by Article 2(1) of the Aviation
Security (Jersey) Order 1993.
(b) An offence under
section 1 of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 as extended
to Jersey by Article 2(2) of that Order.
2 Internationally
Protected Persons Act 1978 (Jersey) Order 1979
An offence under section 1 of the Internationally Protected
Persons Act 1978 as extended to Jersey by Article 3 of the Internationally
Protected Persons Act 1978 (Jersey) Order 1979.
3 Nuclear
Material (Offences) Act 1983 (Jersey) Order 1991
An offence under section 1 or 2 of the Nuclear Material
(Offences) Act 1983 as extended to Jersey by Article 2 of the Nuclear
Material (Offences) Act 1983 (Jersey) Order 1991.
4 Maritime
Security (Jersey) Order 2014
An offence under any of sections 9 to 14 of the Aviation and
Maritime Security Act 1990 as extended to Jersey by Article 2 of the Maritime
Security (Jersey) Order 2014.
5 Taking
of Hostages (Jersey) Order 1982
An offence under section 1 of the Taking of Hostages
Act 1982 as extended to Jersey by Article 3 of the Taking of Hostages
(Jersey) Order 1982.