Section 347A: Sexual harm prevention orders: requirements included in order etc.

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 11: Behaviour orders — CHAPTER 2: Sexual harm prevention orders

Before including such a requirement in a sexual harm prevention order, the court must receive evidence about its suitability and enforceability from—

the individual to be specified under subsection (1), if an individual is to be specified;
an individual representing the organisation to be specified under subsection (1), if an organisation is to be specified.

Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to electronic monitoring requirements (see instead section 348A(5) and (6)).

It is the duty of a person specified under subsection (1)—

to make any necessary arrangements in connection with the requirements for which the person has responsibility (“the relevant requirements”);
to promote the offender’s compliance with the relevant requirements;
if the person considers that—
the offender has complied with all the relevant requirements, or
the offender has failed to comply with a relevant requirement,

to inform the appropriate chief officer of police.

In subsection (4)(c) the “appropriate chief officer of police means—

the chief officer of police for the police area in which it appears to the person specified under subsection (1) that the offender lives, or
if it appears to that person that the offender lives in more than one police area, whichever of the chief officers of police of those areas the person thinks it is most appropriate to inform.

In this section “home address”, in relation to an offender, means—

the address of the offender’s sole or main residence in the United Kingdom, or
where the offender has no such residence, the address or location of a place in the United Kingdom where the offender can regularly be found and, if there is more than one such place, such one of those places as the offender may select.

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