Part 10: Management of offenders Chapter 3: Management of sex offenders Section 172: List of countries
Section 172 makes provision for the establishment of a list of countries and territories considered to be at high risk of child sexual exploitation or abuse by UK nationals and residents.
	Subsection (1) confers the power on the Secretary of State to prepare such a list or direct a relevant person to do so on their behalf. A relevant person is defined at subsection (11) as a person whose statutory functions relate to the prevention or detection of crime, or other law enforcement purposes. This could include for example, the National Crime Agency.
	Subsections (2) and (3)(b) provides that the Secretary of State must lay the list before Parliament and subsection (4) provides that as soon as practicable thereafter the person who prepared the list must publish it.
	Subsection (5) provides that the list of countries has effect for the purposes of the provisions of the Sentencing Code and 2003 Act relating to an application for or making of an SHPO, interim SHPO, SRO or interim SRO and the variation, renewal or discharge of such orders. Through these orders a court may restrict an individual’s travel to any country or countries, where proportionate and necessary to protect children and vulnerable adults outside the UK from sexual harm.
	Subsection (6) provides that the person who prepared the list must keep it under review and may prepare a revised list. A revised list might be necessitated, for example, by a change in intelligence about the risk of child sexual exploitation or abuse posed by UK nationals and residents towards a given country.
	Subsection (9) provides that the Secretary of State may withdraw the list at any time.