Part 2: Release of terrorist offender Section 32: Polygraph licence conditions for terrorist offenders released on licence: England and Wales
Section 32 of the Act amends section 28 of the Offender Management Act 2007 ("the 2007 Act") which provides for specified offenders serving a relevant custodial sentence (defined in section 28(3) of the 2007 Act) to have a condition included in their licence requiring them to undergo polygraph testing. Section 32 extends the provision of polygraph testing to adult terrorist offenders subject to the release provisions of section 247A of the 2003 Act, or those who have committed an offence with a determined terrorist connection (or the service offence equivalent).
	Subsection (3) amends section 29 of the 2007 Act to provide that rules made under section 29(6) relating to the conduct of polygraph sessions may make different provision for different purposes, consequential and other amendments. This is so that different rules could be made for different types of offending. As enacted, polygraph provisions only applied to sex offenders, so this provision provides flexibility should different rules be required for terrorist offenders.