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48 Part 2—Notification and orders :(b) giving an oral notification to any police officer, or to any person authorised for the purpose by the officer in charge of the station.

(2) A person giving a notification under section 84(1)—
 * (a) in relation to a prospective change of home address, or
 * (b) in relation to premises referred to in subsection (1)(c) of that section,

may give the notification at a police station that would fall within subsection (1) above if the change in home address had already occurred or (as the case may be) if the address of those premises were his home address.

(3) Any notification under this section must be acknowledged; and an acknowledgment under this subsection must be in writing, and in such form as the Secretary of State may direct.

(4) Where a notification is given under section 83(1), 84(1) or 85(1), the relevant offender must, if requested to do so by the police officer or person referred to in subsection (1)(b), allow the officer or person to—
 * (a) take his fingerprints,
 * (b) photograph any part of him, or
 * (c) do both these things.

(5) The power in subsection (4) is exercisable for the purpose of verifying the identity of the relevant offender.

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

88 Section 87: interpretation

(1) Subsections (2) to (4) apply for the purposes of section 87.

(2) “Photograph” includes any process by means of which an image may be produced.

(3) “Local police area” means, in relation to a person—
 * (a) the police area in which his home address is situated;
 * (b) in the absence of a home address, the police area in which the home address last notified is situated;
 * (c) in the absence of a home address and of any such notification, the police area in which the court which last dealt with the person in a way mentioned in subsection (4) is situated.

(4) The ways are—
 * (a) dealing with a person in respect of an offence listed in Schedule 3 or a finding in relation to such an offence;
 * (b) dealing with a person in respect of an offence under section 128 or a finding in relation to such an offence;
 * (c) making, in respect of a person, a notification order, interim notification order, sexual offences prevention order or interim sexual offences prevention order;
 * (d) making, in respect of a person, an order under section 2, 2A or 20 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37) (sex offender orders and interim orders made in England and Wales or Scotland) or Article 6 or 6A of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2839 (N.I. 20)) (sex offender orders and interim orders made in Northern Ireland);