Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

47 Initial notification

(1) A person to whom the notification requirements apply must notify the following information to the police within the period of three days beginning with the day on which the person is dealt with in respect of the offence in question.

(2) The information required is—

(a) date of birth;

(b) national insurance number;

(c) name on the date on which the person was dealt with in respect of the offence (where the person used one or more other names on that date, each of those names);

(d) home address on that date;

(e) name on the date on which notification is made (where the person uses one or more other names on that date, each of those names);

(f) home address on the date on which notification is made;

(g) address of any other premises in the United Kingdom at which, at the time the notification is made, the person regularly resides or stays;

(h) any prescribed information.

(3) In subsection (2) “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

Such regulations are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.

(4) In determining the period within which notification is to be made under this section, there shall be disregarded any time when the person is—

(a) remanded in or committed to custody by an order of a court,

(b) serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention,

(c) detained in a hospital, or

(d) detained under the Immigration Acts.

(5) This section does not apply to a person who—

(a) is subject to the notification requirements in respect of another offence (and does not cease to be so subject before the end of the period within which notification is to be made), and

(b) has complied with this section in respect of that offence.

(6) In the application of this section to a person dealt with for an offence before the commencement of this Part who, immediately before commencement—

(a) would be imprisoned or detained in respect of the offence but for being unlawfully at large, absent without leave, on temporary leave or leave of absence, or on bail pending an appeal, or

(b) is on licence, having served the custodial part of a sentence of imprisonment in respect of the offence,

the reference in subsection (1) to the day on which the person is dealt with in respect of the offence shall be read as a reference to the commencement of this Part.