PART 2Sexual harm
CHAPTER 3Sexual harm prevention orders
What order does
16Content and duration of order
1
A sexual harm prevention order is an order prohibiting the person against whom it is made from doing, or requiring the person to do, a thing or things described in the order.
2
A prohibition or requirement contained in a sexual harm prevention order applies throughout the United Kingdom (unless expressly confined to particular localities).
3
A prohibition or requirement contained in a sexual harm prevention order has effect for a fixed period, specified in the order, of not less than 5 years.
4
Different periods may be provided for different prohibitions or requirements.
5
Subsection (3) is subject, in the case of a prohibition on foreign travel, to subsection (1) of section 17.
6
The prohibitions and requirements which may be imposed in a sexual harm prevention order are those necessary for the purpose of—
a
protecting the public, or any particular members of the public, from sexual harm from the person against whom the order is made, or
b
protecting children or vulnerable adults generally, or any particular children or vulnerable adults, from sexual harm from the person against whom the order is made outside the United Kingdom.
7
Where a court makes a sexual harm prevention order in relation to a person already subject to such an order (whether made by that court or another), the earlier order ceases to have effect.
8
A sexual harm prevention order ceases to have effect, if it has not already done so, when all of the prohibitions or requirements contained in it have ceased to have effect.