Policing and Crime Act 2009

25 Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports E+W+N.I.

(1) The Sexual Offences Act 2003 is amended as follows.

(2) After section 117 insert—

“117A Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports

(1) This section applies in relation to a foreign travel order which contains a prohibition within section 117(2)(c).

(2) The order must require the defendant to surrender all of the defendant's passports, at a police station specified in the order—

(a) on or before the date when the prohibition takes effect, or

(b) within a period specified in the order.

(3) Any passports surrendered must be returned as soon as reasonably practicable after the person ceases to be subject to a foreign travel order containing a prohibition within section 117(2)(c).

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to—

(a) 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;

(b) a passport issued by or on behalf of an international organisation if the passport has been returned to that organisation.

(5) In this section “passport” means—

(a) a United Kingdom passport within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971;

(b) 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;

(c) a document that can be used (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport.”

(3) In section 122 (breach of foreign travel order) after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the person fails to comply with a requirement under section 117A(2).”

(4) The amendment made by subsection (2) applies in relation to orders made, varied or renewed after the commencement of this section.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 25 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/507, art. 5(l)