# Crime and Policing Act 2026, Paragraph 6: Notification requirements

Extent: S
Status: prospective

(1) This paragraph applies where a CCE prevention order requires the adult to comply with this paragraph.
(2) Before the end of the period of three days beginning with the day on which a CCE prevention order requiring the adult to comply with this paragraph is first served, the adult must notify to the police—
(a) the adult’s name and, where the adult uses one or more other names, each of those names, and
(b) the adult’s home address.
(3) If, while the adult is required to comply with this paragraph, the adult—
(a) uses a name which has not been notified under the order, or
(b) changes home address,
the adult must notify, to the police, the new name or the new home address.
(4) A notification under sub-paragraph (3) must be given before the end of the period of three days beginning with the day on which the adult uses the name or changes home address.
(5) A notification under this paragraph must be made—
(a) by attending at a police station for the time being specified in the document published under sub-paragraph (6) and giving an oral notification to a constable, or to a person authorised for the purpose by the officer in charge of the station, or
(b) in a way specified in the CCE prevention order.
(6) The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland must publish, in such manner as the Chief Constable thinks fit, a document containing the name and address of each police station at which a person may give a notification under this paragraph.
(7) The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland must keep under review a document published under this paragraph and may, from time to time, publish a revised version of the document in such manner as the Chief Constable thinks fit.
(8) A notification under this paragraph must be acknowledged in writing.
(9) In this paragraph “home address” means—
(a) the address of the adult’s sole or main residence in the United Kingdom, or
(b) where the adult has no such residence, the address or location of a place in the United Kingdom where the adult can regularly be found and, if there is more than one such place, such one of those places as the adult may select.
(10) In determining the period of three days mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) or (4), no account is to be taken of any time when the adult is—
(a) lawfully detained or otherwise lawfully deprived of their liberty, in the United Kingdom, or
(b) outside the United Kingdom.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/schedule/7/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-7/paragraph-6
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