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Section 122C: Sexual risk orders: prohibitions on foreign travel

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

Part 2: Notification and orders

A prohibition on foreign travel contained in a sexual risk order must not be for a period of more than 5 years.

A "prohibition on foreign travel" means—

a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom named or described in the order,
a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom other than a country named or described in the order, or
a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom.

Subsection (1) does not prevent a prohibition on foreign travel from being extended for a further period (of no more than 5 years each time) under section 122D.

A sexual risk order that contains a prohibition within subsection (2)(c) must require the defendant to surrender all of the defendant's passports at a police station specified in the order—

on or before the date when the prohibition takes effect, or
within a period specified in the order.

Any passports surrendered must be returned as soon as reasonably practicable after the person ceases to be subject to a sexual risk order containing such a prohibition (unless the person is subject to an equivalent prohibition under another order).

Subsection (5) does not apply in relation to—

a passport issued by or on behalf of the authorities of a country outside the United Kingdom if the passport has been returned to those authorities;
a passport issued by or on behalf of an international organisation if the passport has been returned to that organisation.

In this section "passport" means—

a United Kingdom passport within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971;
a passport issued by or on behalf of the authorities of a country outside the United Kingdom, or by or on behalf of an international organisation;
a document that can be used (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport.

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