Commentary on Sections and Schedules Part 1 – Terrorist Asset-Freezing Interim designations Section 7 – Notification of interim designation
26.Section 7 requires the Treasury to give notice of and publicise any interim designations that they make. Subsection (1) requires the Treasury to give written notice of a person’s designation to that person and to take steps to publicise the designation.
27.Under subsection (2), the designation must be publicised generally, unless one of the exceptions in subsection (3) applies, in which case under subsection (4) the Treasury must inform only such persons as they consider appropriate. The conditions in subsection (3) are the same as those for final designations in section 3(3).
28.Subsection (5) specifies that where the Treasury have publicised a person’s designation to only those persons they consider appropriate because one or more conditions in subsection (3) were met but such conditions subsequently cease to be met, the Treasury must give written notice of that fact to the designated person and take steps to publicise the designation generally.