PART 10Management of offenders

CHAPTER 3Management of sex offenders

Notification requirements

I2I1168Locations for sexual offender notification

1

Section 87 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (method of notification and related matters) is amended as follows.

2

For paragraph (a) of subsection (1) substitute—

a

attending at the police station in the person’s local police area that is for the time being specified in a document published for that local police area under this section or, if there is more than one such police station, at any one of them, and

3

After subsection (2) insert—

2A

The chief officer of police for each police area must publish, in such manner as the chief officer thinks fit, a document containing the name and address of each police station in that area at which a person may give a notification under section 83(1), 84(1) or 85(1).

2B

A chief officer of police must keep under review a document published by the chief officer under this section and may from time to time publish a revised version of the document in such manner as the chief officer thinks fit.