Explanatory note

This Act of Adjournal amends the Criminal Procedure Rules in order to provide firstly, a form of certificate for the purposes of Part I of the Sex Offenders Act 1997 and a form of notice (to be given to the accused with, or in advance of his being given, a copy of that certificate) as to the requirements of section 2 of that Act; and secondly a form of notice to be served on the prosecutor by a person accused of a sexual offence if that person disputes that an act done by him in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom constituted an offence under the law in force in that country or territory.