Legislation – Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
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- Sch. 7 para. 5A and cross-heading inserted by 2008 c. 25 Sch. 1 para. 90(3)
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- Sch. 7 para. 5A and cross-heading inserted by 2008 c. 25 Sch. 1 para. 90(3)
Part 7Violent offender orders
Notification requirements
108Notification requirements: initial notification
(1)
An offender subject to notification requirements must notify the required information to the police within the period of 3 days beginning with the date on which—
(a)
the violent offender order, or
(b)
the interim violent offender order,
comes into force in relation to the offender (“the relevant date”).
(2)
The “required information” is the following information about the offender—
(a)
date of birth;
(b)
national insurance number;
(c)
name on the relevant date or, if the offender used two or more names on that date, each of those names;
(d)
home address on the relevant date;
(e)
name on the date on which the notification is given or, if the offender used two or more names on that date, each of those names;
(f)
home address on the date on which the notification is given;
(g)
the address of any other premises in the United Kingdom at which on that date the offender regularly resides or stays;
(h)
any prescribed information.
(3)
In subsection (2)(h)
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(4)
When determining the period of 3 days mentioned in subsection (1), there is to be disregarded any time when the offender is—
(a)
remanded in or committed to custody by an order of a court or kept in service custody;
(b)
serving a sentence of imprisonment or a term of service detention;
(c)
detained in a hospital; or
(d)
outside the United Kingdom.
(5)
In this Part “home address” means in relation to the offender—
(a)
the address of the offender’s sole or main residence in the United Kingdom, or
(b)
if the offender has no such residence, the address or location of a place in the United Kingdom where the offender can regularly be found or, if there is more than one such place, such one of them as the offender selects.