Part 2—Prevention orders
(6) Where an immigration officer or the Director General makes an application under this section, the officer or the Director General must give notice of the application to the chief officer of police for a relevant police area.
(7) “Relevant police area” means—
- (a) where the applicant is a chief officer of police, the officer’s police area;
- (b) where the applicant is an immigration officer or the Director General, the police area where the defendant lives or a police area which the officer or Director General believes the defendant is in or is intending to come to.
(8) The acts of the defendant which may be relied on for the purposes of subsection (2) include acts taking place before this section comes into force.
24Effect of slavery and trafficking risk orders
(1) A slavery and trafficking risk order is an order which prohibits the defendant from doing anything described in the order.
(2) The only prohibitions that may be included in the order are those which the court is satisfied are necessary for the purpose of protecting persons generally, or particular persons, from the physical or psychological harm which would be likely to occur if the defendant committed a slavery or human trafficking offence.
(3) The order may prohibit the defendant from doing things in any part of the United Kingdom, and anywhere outside the United Kingdom.
(4) Subject to section 25(1), a prohibition contained in a slavery and trafficking risk order has effect—
- (a) for a fixed period, specified in the order, of at least 2 years, or
- (b) until further order.
(5) A slavery and trafficking risk order—
- (a) may specify that some of its prohibitions have effect until further order and some for a fixed period;
- (b) may specify different periods for different prohibitions.
(6) Where a court makes a slavery and trafficking risk order in relation to a person who is already subject to such an order (whether made by that court or another), the earlier order ceases to have effect.
25Prohibitions on foreign travel
(1) A prohibition on foreign travel contained in a slavery and trafficking risk order must be for a fixed period of not more than 5 years.
(2) A “prohibition on foreign travel” means—
- (a) a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom named or described in the order,
- (b) a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom other than a country named or described in the order, or
- (c) a prohibition on travelling to any country outside the United Kingdom.
