Legal background Registered Terrorist Offender notification requirements
Registered Terrorist Offender notification requirements were introduced in the 2008 Act for specified terrorist offences and apply to those aged 16 and above. Part 4 of the 2008 Act makes provision about the notification of information to the police by certain individuals convicted of relevant terrorism offences or offences committed with a terrorist connection. The notification requirements apply to a person who:
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
is found to have done the act charged against them in respect of such an offence and is made subject in respect of the offence to a hospital order. This applies where the person is:
convicted of a relevant offence carrying a maximum term of imprisonment of 12 months or more or
Found not guilty by reason of insanity of such an offence, or
Found to be under a disability.
	When in the community, such individuals must provide the police with certain personal information, notify any changes to this information, confirm its accuracy periodically and notify any foreign travel. The periods for which the notification requirements apply vary depending on the length of the sentence triggering the requirements.
	The lists of terrorism offences to which these notification requirements apply are in section 41 (terrorism offences) and section 42 (offences having a terrorist connection) of the 2008 Act.