The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 5) (Scotland) Order 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, in relation to Scotland, section 66 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43). Those provisions contain amendments to the Sex Offenders Act 1997 (c. 51) (“the 1997 Act”). In particular, the amendments which are made to the 1997 Act include the reduction in the initial period during which offenders must register from 14 to 3 days; a requirement that initial notification to the police be in person; a new power for the police on initial notification to take fingerprints and photographs of the offender; provision enabling the Scottish Ministers to prescribe by Regulations those police stations at which notifications may be made; an increase in the maximum penalty for a failure to comply with the Act’s requirements to 5 years imprisonment on indictment, or a fine, or both: and a new requirement that a relevant offender must notify the police of his or her intention to leave the United Kingdom and of his or her return.