The Sex Offenders (Notice Requirements) (Foreign Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Giving a notice

9.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, for the purpose of giving a notice under section 2(6E) or 2(6F) of the Act, a person must attend at a police station–

(a) which is in the person’s local police area; and

(b) at which, pursuant to the provisions of section 2(5) of the Act, notifications under section 2(1) of the Act may from time to time be made.

(2) For the purpose of giving a fresh notice under section 2(6E) of the Act as required by regulation 6 above, a person must attend at a police station at which, pursuant to the provisions of section 2(5) of the Act, notifications under section 2(1) of the Act may from time to time be made, but that police station need not be in the person’s local police area.

(3) A notice under section 2(6E) or 2(6F) of the Act must be given to a police officer, or to a person authorised by the officer in charge of the station under section 2(5)(b)(1) of the Act for the purpose of receiving a notification under that section.

(4) A person giving a notice under section 2(6E) or 2(6F) of the Act must inform the person to whom he or she gives the notice of–

(a) his or her name; and

(b) his or her home address,

as currently notified under section 2 of the Act.

(5) A person giving a fresh notice under section 2(6E) of the Act as required by regulation 6 above must inform the person to whom he or she gives the notice of the police station at which he or she first gave a relevant notice under section 2(6E).

(1)

Section 2(5)(b) was substituted by Schedule 5 to the 2000 Act, paragraph 2(2).