[58B Entering or remaining in a designated area]
Terrorism Act 2000 (2000 c 11) | Legislation

[Entering or remaining in designated areas overseas]

[58B  Entering or remaining in a designated area]

[(1)     Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a person commits an offence if—

(a)     the person enters, or remains in, a designated area, and

(b)     the person is a United Kingdom national, or a United Kingdom resident, at the time of entering the area or at any time during which the person remains there.

(2)     It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that the person had a reasonable excuse for entering, or remaining in, the designated area.

(3)     A person does not commit an offence under this section of entering, or remaining in, a designated area if—

(a)     the person is already travelling to, or is already in, the area on the day on which it becomes a designated area, and

(b)     the person leaves the area before the end of the period of one month beginning with that day.

(4)     A person does not commit an offence under

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