On February 19, 2001, Terrorism Act 2000 came into force in the United Kingdom. On the last day of the month, the British Home Office proscribed 21 terrorist organisations. Of these, the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida, Babbar Khalsa, International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operate in the South Asian region.
The other groups that have been proscribed include the Islamic Jihad (Egypt), Al-Gamaat al-Islamiya (Egypt), Armed Islamic Group (Algeria), Hizballah (Lebanon), Hamas (Israel/PA), Islamic Jihad (Israel/PA), Abu Nidal (Palestinian), Mujahideen Khalq (Iranian dissidents/Iraq), Kurdistan Workers' Party (Turkey), Revolutionary Peoples' Liberation Party - Front (Turkey), ETA (Basque separatists/Spain), November 17 (Greece), Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Algeria) and Islamic Army of Aden (Yemen).
Presented below is the complete text of Terrorism Act 2000.