2024 No. 30
Criminal Law

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 87(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Act 20031 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 and come into force on 11 March 2024.

Amendment of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 20172.

(1)

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 20172 are amended as follows.

(2)

In schedule 1 (list of police stations in Scotland), omit the entry for Tain Police Station.

ANGELA CONSTANCE
A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend schedule 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (“the principal Regulations”).

By virtue of section 87(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, relevant offenders must fulfil their notification requirements under that Act by attending at any police station which is prescribed for this purpose in regulations. The principal Regulations prescribe those police stations which are listed in schedule 1. These Regulations amend the principal Regulations by removing the entry for Tain Police Station.