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Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) Part 2—Notification and orders 85 Notification requirements: periodic notification

(1) A relevant offender must, within the period of one year after each event within subsection (2), notify to the police the information set out in section 83(5), unless within that period he has given a notification under section 84(1).

(2) The events are—
 * (a) the commencement of this Part (but only in the case of a person who is a relevant offender from that commencement);
 * (b) any notification given by the relevant offender under section 83(1) or 84(1); and
 * (c) any notification given by him under subsection (1).

(3) Where the period referred to in subsection (1) would (apart from this subsection) end whilst subsection (4) applies to the relevant offender, that period is to be treated as continuing until the end of the period of 3 days beginning when subsection (4) first ceases to apply to him.

(4) This subsection applies to the relevant offender if he is—
 * (a) remanded in or committed to custody by an order of a court,
 * (b) serving a sentence of imprisonment or a term of service detention,
 * (c) detained in a hospital, or
 * (d) outside the United Kingdom.

86 Notification requirements: travel outside the United Kingdom

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision requiring relevant offenders who leave the United Kingdom, or any description of such offenders—
 * (a) to give in accordance with the regulations, before they leave, a notification under subsection (2);
 * (b) if they subsequently return to the United Kingdom, to give in accordance with the regulations a notification under subsection (3).

(2) A notification under this subsection must disclose—
 * (a) the date on which the offender will leave the United Kingdom;
 * (b) the country (or, if there is more than one, the first country) to which he will travel and his point of arrival (determined in accordance with the regulations) in that country;
 * (c) any other information prescribed by the regulations which the offender holds about his departure from or return to the United Kingdom or his movements while outside the United Kingdom.

(3) A notification under this subsection must disclose any information prescribed by the regulations about the offender’s return to the United Kingdom.

(4) Regulations under subsection (1) may make different provision for different categories of person.

87 Method of notification and related matters

(1) A person gives a notification under section 83(1), 84(1) or 85(1) by—
 * (a) attending at such police station in his local police area as the Secretary of State may by regulations prescribe or, if there is more than one, at any of them, and