{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003/section-122J",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003/section-122J.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/42",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003",
  "path": "section/122J",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "122J",
  "heading": "Sexual risk orders and interim sexual risk orders: guidance",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must issue guidance to chief officers of police, the Director General of the National Crime Agency, the chief constable of the British Transport Police Force and the chief constable of the Ministry of Defence Police in relation to the exercise by them of their powers with regard to sexual risk orders and interim sexual risk orders.\n(2) The Secretary of State may, from time to time, revise the guidance issued under subsection (1).\n(3) The Secretary of State must arrange for any guidance issued or revised under this section to be published in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 122A-122K and cross-heading inserted (8.3.2015) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1), Sch. 5 para. 4 (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93, 114(1)(3)-(6)); S.I. 2015/373, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 122J(1) substituted (29.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 171(14), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1227, reg. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/122J",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:48.870823+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."
}