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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/30/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024</dc:title><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>King's Printer for Scotland</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2024-02-01</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">CRIMINAL LAW</dc:subject>
					<dc:description>These Regulations amend schedule 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (“the principal Regulations”).</dc:description>
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<Number>2024 No. 30</Number>
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<Title>Criminal Law</Title>
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<Title>The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>30th January 2024</DateText>
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<Text>Laid before the Scottish Parliament</Text>
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<Text>The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 87(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/> and all other powers enabling them to do so.</Text>
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<Text>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.</Text>
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<Title>Amendment of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017</Title>
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<Text>The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017<FootnoteRef Ref="f00002"/> are amended as follows.</Text>
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<Text>In schedule 1 (list of police stations in Scotland), omit the entry for Tain Police Station.</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations amend schedule 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (“<Term>the principal Regulations</Term>”).</Text>
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<Text>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.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/42" id="c00001" Year="2003" Number="42" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct">2003 c. 42</Citation>. The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 142(6) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and section 53 of the Scotland Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/46" id="c00002" Year="1998" Number="46" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct">1998 (c. 46)</Citation>. Section 87(1)(a) is relevantly amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2013/119" id="c00003" Year="2013" Number="119" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument">S.S.I. 2013/119</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2017/285" id="c00004" Year="2017" Number="285" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument">S.S.I. 2017/285</Citation>, amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2021/220" id="c00005" Year="2021" Number="220" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument">S.S.I. 2021/220</Citation>, <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2021/282" id="c00006" Year="2021" Number="282" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument">S.S.I. 2021/282</Citation> and <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2023/39" id="c00007" Year="2023" Number="39" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument">S.S.I. 2023/39</Citation>.</Text>
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