{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003-travel-notification-requirements-regulations-2004/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003-travel-notification-requirements-regulations-2004/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1220",
  "legislation_title": "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Travel Notification Requirements) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003-travel-notification-requirements-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notification to be given before leaving the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) A relevant offender who intends to leave the United Kingdom for a period of three days or longer must give a notification under section 86(2) in accordance with these Regulations.\n(2) Where a relevant offender to whom these Regulations apply knows the information required to be disclosed by section 86(2)(a) and (b) more than seven days before the date of his intended departure, he shall give a notification which sets out that information and as much of the information required by regulation 6 as he holds—\n(a) not less than seven days before that date (the seven day notification requirement); or\n(b) as soon as reasonably practicable but not less than 24 hours before that date, if and only if the relevant offender has a reasonable excuse for not complying with the seven day notification requirement.\n(3) Where the relevant offender does not know the information required to be disclosed by section 86(2)(a) and (b) more than seven days before the date of his intended departure, he shall give not less than 24 hours before that date, a notification which sets out that information and as much of the information required by regulation 6 as he holds.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A notification under section 86(2) must disclose the date on which the offender will leave the United Kingdom, the country (or, if there is more than one, the first country) to which he will travel and his point of arrival in that country."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1876",
      "affecting_title": "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Notification Requirements) (England and Wales) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1876",
      "affecting_title": "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Notification Requirements) (England and Wales) Regulations 2012"
    },
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      "affecting": "nisr/2014/185",
      "affecting_title": "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Notification Requirements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/185",
      "affecting_title": "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Notification Requirements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/185",
      "affecting_title": "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Notification Requirements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/185",
      "affecting_title": "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Notification Requirements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1220/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:26:47.804182+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."
}