Section 56 Notification requirementsI1

England and Wales Not yet in force

(1)

This section applies where a CCE prevention order requires the defendant to comply with this section.

(2)

Before the end of the period of three days beginning with the day on which a CCE prevention order requiring the defendant to comply with this section is first served, the defendant must notify to the police—

(a)

the defendant’s name and, where the defendant uses one or more other names, each of those names, and

(b)

the defendant’s home address.

(3)

If, while the defendant is required to comply with this section, the defendant—

(a)

uses a name which has not been notified under the order, or

(b)

changes home address,

the defendant must notify, to the police, the new name or the new home address.

(4)

A notification under subsection (3) must be given before the end of the period of three days beginning with the day on which the defendant uses the name or changes home address.

(5)

A notification under this section is made—

(a)

by attending at an appropriate police station 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)

An “appropriate police station” is a police station in the police area in which—

(a)

the defendant’s home address is situated, or

(b)

the court which made the order is situated.

(7)

A notification under this section must be acknowledged in writing.

(8)

In this section “home address” means—

(a)

the address of the defendant’s sole or main residence in the United Kingdom, or

(b)

where the defendant has no such residence, the address or location of a place in the United Kingdom where the defendant can regularly be found and, if there is more than one such place, such one of those places as the defendant may select.

(9)

In determining the period of three days mentioned in subsection (2) or (4), no account is to be taken of any time when the defendant is—

(a)

lawfully detained or otherwise lawfully deprived of their liberty, in the United Kingdom, or

(b)

outside the United Kingdom.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 56 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)