Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015

20 Contents of prevention orders

(1) A trafficking and exploitation prevention order may contain prohibitions or requirements (or both) in relation to the adult in respect of whom the order is to have effect.

(2) Each of the following must have an effect for a fixed period, specified in the trafficking and exploitation prevention order, of at least 5 years—

(a) a prohibition or requirement in the order,

(b) the order.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a prohibition on foreign travel or to an order that contains a prohibition on foreign travel and no other prohibitions or requirements (see section 21).

(4) A trafficking and exploitation prevention order may—

(a) prohibit the adult in respect of whom the order is to have effect from doing things, or require that adult to do things, in any part of Scotland and anywhere outwith Scotland,

(b) specify different periods for different prohibitions and requirements.

(5) If the court makes a trafficking and exploitation prevention order in respect of an adult who is already subject to such an order (whether made by that court or another), the earlier order ceases to have effect.

(6) In this section “the court” means the High Court, or as the case may be, the sheriff making the order.