Part 2Notification and orders

F1Sexual harm prevention orders (England and Wales)

103DSHPOs: prohibitions on foreign travel

(1)

A prohibition on foreign travel contained in a sexual harm prevention order must be for a fixed period of not more than 5 years.

(2)

A “prohibition on foreign travel” means—

(a)

a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom named or described in the order,

(b)

a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom other than a country named or described in the order, or

(c)

a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom.

(3)

Subsection (1) does not prevent a prohibition on foreign travel from being extended for a further period (of no more than 5 years each time) under section 103E.

(4)

A sexual harm prevention order that contains a prohibition within subsection (2)(c) must require the defendant to surrender all of the defendant's passports at a police station specified in the order—

(a)

on or before the date when the prohibition takes effect, or

(b)

within a period specified in the order.

(5)

Any passports surrendered must be returned as soon as reasonably practicable after the person ceases to be subject to a sexual harm prevention order containing a prohibition within subsection (2)(c) (unless the person is subject to an equivalent prohibition under another order).

(6)

Subsection (5) does not apply in relation to—

(a)

a passport issued by or on behalf of the authorities of a country outside the United Kingdom if the passport has been returned to those authorities;

(b)

a passport issued by or on behalf of an international organisation if the passport has been returned to that organisation.

(7)

In this section “passport” means—

(a)

a United Kingdom passport within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971;

(b)

a passport issued by or on behalf of the authorities of a country outside the United Kingdom, or by or on behalf of an international organisation;

(c)

a document that can be used (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport.