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Scottish Statutory Instruments
2023 No. 39
Criminal Law
The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023
Made
9th February 2023
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
13th February 2023
Coming into force
17th April 2023
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 87(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023 and come into force on 17 April 2023.
Amendment of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017
2.—(1) The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017(2) are amended as follows.
(2) In schedule 1 (list of police stations in Scotland), for the entry relating to Ayr Police Station, substitute—
“Ayr Police Station
30 Green Street Lane
Ayr
KA8 8BH”.
KEITH BROWN
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
9th February 2023
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend schedule 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (“the principal Regulations”).
By virtue of section 87(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, relevant offenders must fulfil their notification requirements under the Act by attending any police station which is prescribed for this purpose in Regulations. The principal Regulations prescribe those police stations. These Regulations amend the principal Regulations by substituting the address for Ayr Police Station.
(1)
2003 c. 42 . The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 142(6) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”) and section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). Section 87(1) of the 2003 Act was amended by S.S.I. 2013/119.
(2)
S.S.I. 2017/285, amended by S.S.I. 2021/220 and S.S.I. 2021/282.
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