Section 25 Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports
182.Subsection (2) inserts a new section 117A into the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to require offenders who are subject to a foreign travel order that prohibits them from travelling anywhere outside the UK to surrender their passports at a police station specified in the order.
183.This section also requires the police to return any passport as soon as reasonably practicable after the relevant Foreign Travel Order has ceased, unless that passport is a foreign passport or a passport issued by an international organisation and it has been returned to the authorities outside the United Kingdom which issued the passport.
184.Subsection (3) amends section 122 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to create a new offence of failing to comply with a requirement to surrender a passport.
185.Subsection (4) provides that this amendment made by subsection (2) applies to the making, variation or renewal of a foreign travel order after this section has been commenced.