Section 91B: Review of indefinite notification requirements: application for review and qualifying dates, Sexual Offences Act 2003

An application for review must be in writing and may be made on or after the qualifying date or, as the case may be, the further qualifying date.

Subject to subsection (7), the qualifying date is—

where the qualifying relevant offender was 18 or over on the relevant date, the day after the end of the 15 year period beginning with the day on which the qualifying relevant offender gives the relevant notification; or

where the qualifying relevant offender was under 18 on the relevant date, the day after the end of the 8 year period beginning with the day on which the qualifying relevant offender gives the relevant notification.

Subject to subsections (4) to (6), the further qualifying date is the day after the end of the 8 year period beginning with the day on which the relevant chief officer of police makes a determination under section 91C to require a qualifying relevant offender to remain subject to the indefinite notification requirements.

Subsection (5) applies if the relevant chief officer of police, when making a determination under section 91C to require a qualifying relevant offender to remain subject to the indefinite notification requirements, considers that the risk of sexual harm posed by a qualifying relevant offender is sufficient to justify a continuation of those requirements after the end of the 8 year period beginning with the day on which the determination is made.

If this subsection applies, the relevant chief officer of police may make a determination to require a qualifying relevant offender to remain subject to the indefinite notification requirements for a period which may be no longer than the 15 year period beginning with the day on which the determination is made.

If subsection (5) applies, the further qualifying date is the day after the end of the period determined under that subsection.

The qualifying date must not be earlier than the expiry of the fixed period specified in a notification continuation order made in relation to a qualifying relevant offender in accordance with sections 88A to 88I.

The relevant chief officer of police within 14 days of receipt of an application for review—

must give an acknowledgment of receipt of the application to the qualifying relevant offender, and

may notify a responsible body that the application has been made.

Where a responsible body is notified of the application for review under subsection (8)(b) and holds information which it considers to be relevant to the application, the responsible body must give such information to the relevant chief officer of police within 28 days of receipt of the notification.

In this section "the relevant notification" means the first notification which the relevant offender gives under section 83, 84 or 85 when he is first released after—

being remanded in or committed to custody by an order of a court in relation to the conviction for the offence giving rise to the indefinite notification requirements;

serving a sentence of imprisonment or a term of service detention in relation to that conviction;

being detained in hospital in relation to that conviction.

For the purposes of this Part—

"responsible body" means—

the probation trust for any area that includes any part of the police area concerned,

in relation to any part of the police area concerned for which there is no probation trust, each provider of probation services which has been identified as a relevant provider of probation services for the purposes of section 325 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 by arrangements under section 3 of the Offender Management Act 2007,

the Minister of the Crown exercising functions in relation to prisons (and for this purpose "prison" has the same meaning as in the Prison Act 1952), and

each body mentioned in section 325(6) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, but as if the references in that subsection to the relevant area were references to the police area concerned;

"risk of sexual harm" means a risk of physical or psychological harm to the public in the United Kingdom or any particular members of the public caused by the qualifying relevant offender committing one or more of the offences listed in Schedule 3.

Section 91B: Review of indefinite notification requirements: application for review and qualifying dates

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