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The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2024-01-30

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department King's Printer for Scotland

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Made: 30th January 2024

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 1st February 2024

Coming into force: 11th March 2024

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 87(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 and come into force on 11 March 2024.

Amendment of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017

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(1) The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017[^f00002] are amended as follows.

(2) In schedule 1 (list of police stations in Scotland), omit the entry for Tain Police Station.

Signed

ANGELA CONSTANCE — A member of the Scottish Government — 30th January 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend schedule 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (“the principal Regulations”).

By virtue of section 87(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, relevant offenders must fulfil their notification requirements under that Act by attending at any police station which is prescribed for this purpose in regulations. The principal Regulations prescribe those police stations which are listed in schedule 1. These Regulations amend the principal Regulations by removing the entry for Tain Police Station.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2003 c. 42. The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 142(6) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). Section 87(1)(a) is relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2013/119.

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2017/285, amended by S.S.I. 2021/220, S.S.I. 2021/282 and S.S.I. 2023/39.

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