176 Sexual risk orders: power to impose positive requirements
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (2022 c 32) | Legislation

176  Sexual risk orders: power to impose positive requirements

(1)     The Sexual Offences Act 2003 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 122A (sexual risk orders: applications, grounds and effect)—

(a)     for subsection (7) substitute—

“(7)     A sexual risk order may—

(a)     prohibit the defendant from doing anything described in the order;

(b)     require the defendant to do anything described in the order.”,

(b)     in subsection (8), for the words from “may specify” to the end of the subsection substitute “—

(a)     has effect for a fixed period (not less than 2 years) specified in the order or until further order, and

(b)     may specify different periods for different prohibitions or requirements.”,

(c)     in subsection (9), after “prohibitions” insert “or requirements”, and

(d)     after subsection (9) insert—

“(9A)     The prohibitions or requirements which are imposed on the defendant by a sexual risk order must, so far as practicable, be such as to avoid—

(a)     any conflict with the defendant's religious beliefs,

(b)     any interference with the times, if any, at which the defendant normally works

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