{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/26",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports",
  "text": "(1) The Sexual Offences Act 2003 is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 117 insert—\n“Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports\n117A (1) This section applies in relation to a foreign travel order which contains a prohibition within section 117(2)(c).\n(2) The order must require the defendant to surrender all of the defendant's passports, at a police station specified in the order—\n(a) on or before the date when the prohibition takes effect, or\n(b) within a period specified in the order.\n(3) Any passports surrendered must be returned as soon as reasonably practicable after the person ceases to be subject to a foreign travel order containing a prohibition within section 117(2)(c).\n(4) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to—\n(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;\n(b) a passport issued by or on behalf of an international organisation if the passport has been returned to that organisation.\n(5) In this section “passport” means—\n(a) a United Kingdom passport within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971;\n(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;\n(c) a document that can be used (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport.”\n(3) In section 122 (breach of foreign travel order) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the person fails to comply with a requirement under section 117A(2).”\n(4) The amendment made by subsection (2) applies in relation to orders made, varied or renewed after the commencement of this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/507, art. 5(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/26/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:38.465629+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}