Professional statute overview
Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance
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Purpose and legislative effect
“This section defines key terms used in the Act, including “authorised officer” and “terrorism and terrorist act.””
This section defines key terms used in the Act, including “authorised officer” and “terrorism and terrorist act.” The Act’s inspection and seizure powers extend to electronic or magnetic records, including access through the custodian’s facilities and seizure of the storage device. The High Court may try offences under this Act, subject to the rest of the Act. Certain offences committed outside Zambia are treated as having been committed in Zambia if the listed conditions apply. A person who directs the activities of an organisation concerned in terrorism commits an offence and, if convicted, is liable to life imprisonment. A person who possesses an article for terrorism-related purposes commits an offence and, if convicted, faces life imprisonment.
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How the instrument operates
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This section defines key terms used in the Act, including “authorised officer” and “terrorism and terrorist act.”
Section 2
The Attorney-General and authorised officers may seek court orders to freeze, seize, detain, and manage money or property linked to a suspect or terrorist property, with notice and time limits.
Section 26
A Victims of Terrorism Fund is established and must be administered under rules made by the Minister.
Section 48
The Minister may, by written notice, require a port manager to display a notice in specified places in control areas, and the port manager must take reasonable steps to comply.
Section 10
This section names a Convention concerning the prohibition, stockpiling, production, transfer, and destruction of anti-personnel mines.
Section 13
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Source and current-law status
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Source record from zambialii.org · As at 12 Sept 2007
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