Part 1: Counter-terrorism Chapter 2: Punishment and management of terrorist offenders Section 12 and Schedule 1: Additional requirements
This section and Schedule 1 make a number of further changes to the notification requirements in Part 4 of the 2008 Act.
	Part 4 of the 2008 Act makes provision about the notification of information to the police by certain individuals (aged 16 or over) convicted of relevant terrorism offences (listed in section 41) or terrorism-related offences (as provided for in section 42). The notification requirements apply to a person who: (a) is convicted of a relevant offence and receives a sentence of imprisonment or detention for a period or term of 12 months or more in relation to that offence; or (b) is convicted, found not guilty by reason of insanity or found to be under a disability and to have done the act charged in respect of such an offence punishable by 12 months’ imprisonment or more and is made subject to a hospital order. When in the community, such individuals – registered terrorist offenders ("RTOs") - must provide the police with certain personal information, notify any changes to this information, confirm its accuracy periodically and notify any foreign travel. The period for which the notification requirement applies varies depending on the length of the sentence triggering the requirement, as follows:
Length of sentence
Adults sentenced to 10 or more years’ imprisonment or detention (including life or indeterminate sentences)
Adults sentenced to five or more years’ but less than 10 years’ imprisonment or detention
Adults sentenced to 12 months’ or more but less than five years’ imprisonment, and 16 or 17 year olds (irrespective of the length of sentence)
Period for which notification requirement applies
30 years
15 years
10 years
	Section 47 of the 2008 Act sets out the information an RTO must supply to the police when first making a notification; this includes the RTO’s name (or names) and home address (or addresses), date of birth and national insurance number. Section 60 of the 2008 Act defines "home address". This provides that where an offender is homeless or of no fixed abode his or her "home address" means an address or location where he can be regularly found. This might, for example, be a shelter or a friend's house. Subsection (2) amends section 47 to add further categories of information which must be provided on the initial notification, namely:
	The RTO’s contact details (that is, a telephone number (if any) and an email address (if any)) on the date on which the person was dealt with in respect of the offence, sentencing for which triggered the notification requirement;
	The RTO’s contact details on the date of notification;
	The identifying information (registration number, model and colour of the vehicle and the location where the vehicle is normally stored when not in use) of any motor vehicle in respect of which the RTO is the registered keeper or otherwise has the right to use (for example, by virtue of the RTO’s employment or a car hire agreement);
	Details of any bank accounts or equivalent (including accounts held jointly with another person, any business accounts held by the RTO where he or she runs a business through a company, and any bank accounts which the offender is entitled to operate in addition to those these in the offender’s name) and any debit, credit, charge or prepaid cards held by the RTO (paragraph 1 of new Schedule 3A to the 2008 Act, inserted by Schedule 1 to the Act, detailing the financial information that must be provided by an RTO);
	Details of any passport(s) or other identity document(s) held by the RTO (paragraph 2 of new Schedule 3A to the 2008 Act, inserted by Schedule 1 to the Act, specifies the required information that must be provided by an RTO).
	Section 48 of the 2008 Act sets out the requirement on a person to notify the police of changes to the details they have already notified. As a consequence of the imposition of the new requirements on RTOs to notify the police of their contact details, information about motor vehicles they have a right to use, financial information and information about passports or identity documents they hold, subsection (3)(b) amends section 48 (by inserting new subsections (4A) to (4E)) and subsection (4) inserts new section 48A so that RTOs are also required to notify the police of any changes to such information. Where there is a change to the RTO’s financial information or identification documents, the notification of such changes under new section 48A must be accompanied by a re-notification of all the other information required by section 47(2) of the 2008 Act (new section 48A(8)).
	Under section 48 of the 2008 Act any RTO whose address changes (including if his or her address is a place where he or she may regularly be found, in the case of a person with no sole or main address) must notify the police of the change within three days. Subsection (5) amends section 49 to require a homeless RTO to re-notify the police of his or her information on a weekly basis, rather than annually.