Part 3: Powers for dealing with domestic abuse Section 41: Notification requirements
This section requires the perpetrator to notify the police of their name, including any aliases, and home address within three days beginning with the date of the making of the DAPO. Any change of name or home address, or any adoption of a new name, must also be notified to the police within three days of the event. Such information will assist the police in monitoring compliance with the DAPO and in managing the risk posed by the perpetrator.
	The perpetrator’s "home address" for these purposes is defined in section 56(1) as meaning either the person’s sole or main residence in the UK or, where they have no such residence, the address or location in the UK where they can regularly be found. If a person can regularly be found at two or more locations (for example at a family home at the weekend and at a flat near their work during the week) they would need to select one of these places and provide details of its address. Equally, if a person is homeless, they would need to provide details of one location where they can regularly be found. Subsection (6) requires a person to notify the police if they cease to have a home address as defined in section 56(1) (for example, if they leave the UK to live abroad). Section 56(3) provides that references to changing home address include cases where a person acquires a home address in the UK after a period in which they did not have such an address (for example, if they have returned to the UK after a period living abroad).
	Subsection (7) enables the Secretary of State, by regulations (subject to the affirmative procedure), to specify further notification requirements which a court may impose, on a case-by-case basis, when making or varying a DAPO. Where additional notification requirements are imposed by a court, the perpetrator must supply the required information to the police.
	Certain sex offenders and persons subject to a stalking protection order are already subject to notification requirements by virtue of provisions in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the Stalking Protection Act 2019, accordingly where the subject of a DAPO is already liable to one or other of these notification requirements (or already the subject of another DAPO), the provisions in this section do not apply to avoid unnecessary duplication (subsection (8)). However, if the notification requirements under one or other of these enactments or another DAPO cease to apply to the subject of a DAPO then the requirements of this section will instead apply. In such a case, the perpetrator would need to notify the police of his or her name(s) and home address within three days of the notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act, Stalking Protection Act or other DAPO, as the case may be, ceasing to apply (subsection (9)).