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Section 118: Foreign travel orders: variations, renewals and discharges

Sexual Offences Act 2003 · 2003 c. 42View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Notification and orders

A person within subsection (2) may by complaint to the appropriate court apply for an order varying, renewing or discharging a foreign travel order.

The persons are—

the defendant;
the chief officer of police on whose application the foreign travel order was made;
the chief officer of police for the area in which the defendant resides;
a chief officer of police who believes that the defendant is in, or is intending to come to, his police area.

Subject to subsection (4), on the application the court, after hearing the person making the application and (if they wish to be heard) the other persons mentioned in subsection (2), may make any order, varying, renewing or discharging the foreign travel order, that the court considers appropriate.

An order may be renewed, or varied so as to impose additional prohibitions on the defendant, only if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of protecting children generally or any child from serious sexual harm from the defendant outside the United Kingdom (and any renewed or varied order may contain only such prohibitions as are necessary for this purpose).

In this section "the appropriate court" means—

the court which made the foreign travel order;
a magistrates' court for the area in which the defendant resides; or
where the application is made by a chief officer of police, any magistrates' court whose commission area includes any part of his police area.

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