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(1)Sections 104 and 106 to 109 apply to Scotland with the following modifications—
(a)subsections (1)(b), (2) and (3) of section 104 shall be disregarded;
(b)an application under subsection (5) of section 104 shall not be competent in respect of a person who is a qualifying offender by virtue only of a conviction or finding which relates to any offence listed at paragraphs 64 to 111 of Schedule 5;
(c)references to a chief officer of police and to his police area are to be read, respectively, as references to a chief constable and to the area of his police force;
(d)references to the defendant are to be read as references to the person in respect of whom the order is sought or has effect;
(e)an application for a sexual offences prevention order or interim sexual offences prevention order is made by summary application to any sheriff within whose sheriffdom lies—
(i)any part of the area of the applicant’s police force; or
(ii)any place where it is alleged that the person in respect of whom the order is sought or has effect acted in a way mentioned in subsection (5)(b) of section 104,
(references to “the court” being construed accordingly);
(f)an application for the variation, renewal or discharge of either such order is made by summary application to the sheriff who made the order or to a sheriff—
(i)within whose sheriffdom the person subject to the order resides; or
(ii)where the application is made by a chief constable, within whose sheriffdom lies any part of the area of the applicant’s police force,
(references to “the court” being construed accordingly).
(2)A record of evidence shall be kept on any summary application made by virtue of subsection (1)(e) or (f) above.
(3)The clerk of the court by which, by virtue of that subsection, a sexual offences prevention order or interim sexual offences prevention order is made, varied, renewed or discharged shall cause a copy of, as the case may be—
(a)the order as so made, varied or renewed; or
(b)the interlocutor by which discharge is effected,
to be given to the person named in the order or sent to him by registered post or by the recorded delivery service (an acknowledgement or certificate of delivery of a copy so sent, issued by the Post Office, being sufficient evidence of the delivery of the copy on the day specified in the acknowledgement or certificate).
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