Commentary on Sections Part 2:  Prevention Orders Section 18:  Prohibitions on foreign travel
82.A STPO may prohibit a person from travelling to any specified country outside the United Kingdom, any country other than a country specified in the order or any country outside the United Kingdom (subsection (2)). Such a prohibition may be for a fixed period not exceeding five years, but may be renewed at the end of that period (subsections (1) and (3)). A person prohibited from travelling to any country must surrender all his or her passports to the police (subsection (4)). The police must return any such passports, unless they have been returned to the relevant national or international issuing authorities, once the all-country prohibition ceases to have effect (subsections (5) and (6)).