50Method of notification and related mattersU.K.
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(1)This section applies to notification under—
(a)section 47 (initial notification),
(b)section 48 (notification of change),
(c)section 49 (periodic re-notification), or
(d)section 56 (notification on return after absence from UK).
(2)Notification must be made by the person—
(a)attending at a police station in the person's local police area, and
(b)making an oral notification to a police officer or to a person authorised for the purpose by the officer in charge of the station.
(3)A person making a notification under section 48 (notification of change) in relation to premises referred to in subsection (3) of that section may make the notification at a police station that would fall within subsection (2)(a) above if the address of those premises were the person's home address.
(4)The notification must be acknowledged.
(5)The acknowledgement must be in writing, and in such form as the Secretary of State may direct.
(6)The person making the notification must, if requested to do so by the police officer or person to whom the notification is made, allow the officer or person to—
(a)take the person's fingerprints,
(b)photograph any part of the person, or
(c)do both these things,
for the purpose of verifying the person's identity.
(7)In the application of this section to Scotland, references to a police officer are to be read as references to a constable.