Part 1: Counter-terrorism Chapter 2: Punishment and management of terrorist offenders Section 7: Increase in maximum sentences
Subsections (2), (3), (4), (6) and (7) increase the maximum penalty for five terrorism offences, as follows:
Offence
Current maximum penalty
New maximum penalty
Failure to disclose information about acts of terrorism (section 38B of the 2000 Act)
5 years
10 years
Collection of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism (section 58 of the 2000 Act)
10 years
15 years
Eliciting, publishing or communicating information about members of armed forces etc which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism (section 58A of the 2000 Act)
10 years
15 years
Encouragement of terrorism (section 1 of the 2006 Act)
7 years
15 years
Dissemination of terrorist publications (section 2 of the 2006 Act)
7 years
15 years