30/07/2019 Republic Act No. 9372 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines accounts, assets, and records from a bank or nancial institution. The bank or nancial institution concerned shall not refuse to allow such examination or to provide the desired information, when so ordered by and served with the written order of the Court of Appeals. SEC. 28. Application to Examine Bank Deposits, Accounts, and Records. — The written order of the Court of Appeals authorizing the examination of bank deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets, and records: (1) of a person charged with or suspected of the crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism; (2) of any judicially declared and outlawed terrorist organization, association, or group of persons, or (3) of any member of such organization, association, or group of persons in a bank or nancial institution, and the gathering of any relevant information about the same from said bank or nancial institution, shall only be granted by the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals upon an ex parte application to that effect of a police or of a law enforcement o cial who has been duly authorized in writing to le such ex parte application by the Anti-Terrorism Council created in Section 53 of this Act to le such ex parte application, and upon examination under oath or a rmation of the applicant and the witnesses he may produce to establish the facts that will justify the need and urgency of examining and freezing the bank deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets, and records: (1) of the person charged with or suspected of the crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism; (2) of a judicially declared and outlawed terrorist organization, association or group of persons; or (3) of any member of such organization, association, or group of persons. SEC. 29. Classi cation and Contents of the Court Order Authorizing the Examination of Bank Deposits, Accounts, and Records. — The written order granted by the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals as well as its order, if any, to extend or renew the same, the original ex parte application of the applicant, including his ex parte application to extend or renew, if any, and the written authorizations of the Anti-Terrorism Council, shall be deemed and are hereby declared as classi ed information: Provided, That the person whose bank deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets, and records have been examined, frozen, sequestered and seized by law enforcement authorities has the right to be informed of the acts done by the law enforcement authorities in the premises or to challenge, if he or she intends to do so, the legality of the interference. The written order of the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals designated to handle cases involving terrorism shall specify: (a) the identify of the said: (1) person charged with or suspected of the crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism; (2) judicially declared and outlawed terrorist organization, association, or group of persons; and (3) member of such judicially declared and outlawed organization, association, or group of persons, as the case may be, whose deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets, and records are to be examined or the information to be gathered; (b) the identity of the bank or nancial institution where such deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets, and records are held and maintained; (c) the identity of the persons who will conduct the said examination and the gathering of the desired information; and, (d) the length of time the authorization shall be carried out. https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2007/03/06/republic-act-no-9372/ 13/26