Part 2: Remedies Section 26: Final orders and final notifications
Section 26 provides for the Secretary of State’s final decision following a national security assessment. Before the end of the assessment period (see section 23), the Secretary of State must either notify the recipients of the call-in notice (see section 1) that no further action will be taken on the assessment under the Act, or, where he or she is satisfied that a trigger event has taken place or is in progress or contemplation, and that it has given rise to or would give rise to a national security risk, make a final order for the purpose of preventing, remedying or mitigating that risk. The Secretary of State may only make a final order if he or she reasonably considers that the provisions of the order are necessary and proportionate for the permitted purposes. Subsection (4) requires the Secretary of State to consider any representations made to him or her before making a final order.
	Subsection (5) provides that a final order may amongst other things include provision requiring persons to do or not do particular things. A final order will be in force for the period specified in or under it, or until it is revoked (subsections (7) and (8)).
	Subsection (6) sets out the permitted extra-territorial application of final orders. A final order may only apply to a person’s conduct outside the UK or the territorial sea adjacent to the UK if they are: (a) a UK national; (b) an individual ordinarily resident in the UK; (c) a body incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the UK; or (d) carrying on business in the UK.