Section 122F: Sexual risk orders and interim sexual risk orders: notification requirements

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

Part 2: Notification and orders

A person in respect of whom a court makes—

a sexual risk order (other than one that replaces an interim sexual risk order), or
an interim sexual risk order,

must, within the period of 3 days beginning with the date of service of the order, notify to the police the information set out in subsection (2) (unless the person is subject to the notification requirements of this Part on that date).

The information is—

the person's name and, where the person uses one or more other names, each of those names;
the person's home address.

A person who—

is subject to a sexual risk order or an interim sexual risk order (but is not subject to the notification requirements of this Part), and
uses a name which has not been notified under this section (or under any other provision of this Part), or changes home address,

must, within the period of 3 days beginning with the date on which that happens, notify to the police that name or (as the case may be) the new home address.

Sections 87 (method of notification and related matters) and 91 (offences relating to notification) apply for the purposes of this section—

with references to section 83(1) being read as references to subsection (1) above,
with references to section 84(1) being read as references to subsection (3) above, and
with the omission of section 87(2)(b).

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