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Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2007

My Lords, the noble Lord may know that I have long been in favour of proscription as a useful tool in dealing with the threat of terrorism. Both the organisations to which the order relates seem dedicated to the use of violence. Will he therefore confirm that they could have been proscribed under the original Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and that there would have been no need to resort to Section 21 of the 2006 Act, which extended proscription to cases of glorification? It appears that this proscription has not been made on that basis. I also ask him to confirm that the two organisations do not pose any direct threat within the United Kingdom.