Policing and Crime Act 2009

25 Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports

(1) The Sexual Offences Act 2003 is amended as follows.

(2) After section 117 insert—

“117A Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports

(1) This section applies in relation to a foreign travel order which contains a prohibition within section 117(2)(c).

(2) The order must require the defendant to surrender all of the defendant’s passports, at a police station specified in the order—

(a) on or before the date when the prohibition takes effect, or

(b) within a period specified in the order.

(3) Any passports surrendered must be returned as soon as reasonably practicable after the person ceases to be subject to a foreign travel order containing a prohibition within section 117(2)(c).

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to—

(a) a passport issued by or on behalf of the authorities of a country outside the United Kingdom if the passport has been returned to those authorities;

(b) a passport issued by or on behalf of an international organisation if the passport has been returned to that organisation.

(5) In this section “passport” means—

(a) a United Kingdom passport within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971;

(b) a passport issued by or on behalf of the authorities of a country outside the United Kingdom, or by or on behalf of an international organisation;

(c) a document that can be used (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport.”

(3) In section 122 (breach of foreign travel order) after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the person fails to comply with a requirement under section 117A(2).”

(4) The amendment made by subsection (2) applies in relation to orders made, varied or renewed after the commencement of this section.