Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules Amendment No. 5) (Sexual Offences Prevention Orders) 2005 No. 472

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Act of Adjournal may be cited as the Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules Amendment No. 5) (Sexual Offences Prevention Orders) 2005 and shall come into force on 7th October 2005.

(2) This Act of Adjournal shall be inserted in the Books of Adjournal.

Amendment of the Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) 1996

2.—(1) The Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following sub-paragraphs.

(2) At the end there shall be inserted the following:

“CHAPTER 48 PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND PREVENTION OF SEXUAL OFFENCES (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005(2)

Interpretation

48.1.   In this Chapter “sexual offences prevention order” means a sexual offences prevention order made where subsection (2) or (3) of section 104 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003(3) applies.

Sexual offences prevention orders

48.2.   A sexual offences prevention order shall be in Form 48.2.

Variation, renewal or discharge of sexual offences prevention orders

48.3.   An application for the variation, renewal or discharge of a sexual offences prevention order shall be made by petition in Form 48.3.”.

(3) In the appendix, at the end there shall be inserted the forms set out in the Schedule to this Act of Adjournal.

Cullen of Whitekirk

Lord Justice General I.P.D.

Edinburgh

27th September 2005