PART 8VIOLENT OFFENCES PREVENTION ORDERS

Notification requirements

66Notification requirements: changes

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An offender subject to notification requirements must, within the period of 3 days beginning with the date on which any notifiable event occurs, notify to the police—

a

the required new information, and

b

the information mentioned in section 65(2).

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A “notifiable event” means—

I3a

the use by the offender of a name which has not been notified to the police under section 65 or this section;

I3b

any change of the offender's home address;

I3c

the expiry of any qualifying period during which the offender has resided or stayed at any premises in the United Kingdom the address of which has not been notified to the police under section 65 or this section;

I1d

any prescribed change of circumstances; or

I3e

the release of the offender from custody pursuant to an order of a court or from a custodial sentence or detention in a hospital.

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The “required new information” is—

I3a

the name referred to in subsection (2)(a),

I3b

the new home address (see subsection (2)(b)),

I3c

the address of the premises referred to in subsection (2)(c),

I2d

the prescribed details, or

I3e

the fact that the offender has been released as mentioned in subsection (2)(e),

as the case may be.

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A notification under subsection (1) may be given before the notifiable event occurs, but in that case the offender must also specify the date when the event is expected to occur.

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If a notification is given in accordance with subsection (4) and the event to which it relates occurs more than 2 days before the date specified, the notification does not affect the duty imposed by subsection (1).

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If a notification is given in accordance with subsection (4) and the event to which it relates has not occurred by the end of the period of 3 days beginning with the date specified—

a

the notification does not affect the duty imposed by subsection (1), and

b

the offender must, within the period of 6 days beginning with the date specified, notify to the police the fact that the event did not occur within the period of 3 days beginning with the date specified.

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Section 65(3) applies to the determination of—

a

any period of 3 days for the purposes of subsection (1), or

b

any period of 6 days for the purposes of subsection (6),

as it applies to the determination of the period of 3 days mentioned in section 65(1).

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In this section—

a

prescribed change of circumstances” means any change—

i

occurring in relation to any matter in respect of which information is required to be notified by virtue of section 65(2)(h), and

ii

of a description prescribed by regulations made by the Department;

b

the prescribed details”, in relation to a prescribed change of circumstances, means such details of the change as may be so prescribed.

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In this section “qualifying period” means—

a

a period of 7 days, or

b

two or more periods, in any period of 12 months, which taken together amount to 7 days.