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Person twice convicted may be subjected to police supervision.
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Where any person is convicted on indictment of a crime, and a previous conviction of a crime is proved against him, the court, having cognizance of such indictment may, in addition to any other punishment which it may award to him, direct that he is to be subject to the supervision of the police for a period of seven years, or such less period as the court may direct, commencing immediately after the expiration of the sentence passed on him for the last of such crimes.
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Every person subject to the supervision of the police, who is at large in Great Britain or Ireland, shall notify the place of his residence to the chief officer of police of the district in which his residence is situated, and shall, whenever he changes such residence within the same police district, notify such change to the chief officer of police of that district, [2 and whenever he is about to leave a police district he shall notify such his intention to the chief officer of police of that district, stating the place to which he is going, and also, if required, and, so far as is practicable, his address at that place, and whenever he arrives in any police district he shall forthwith notify his place of residence to the chief officer of police of such last-mentioned district;] moreover every person subject to the supervision of the police, if a male, shall once in each month report himself, at such time as may be prescribed by the chief officer of police of the district in which such holder may be, either to such chief officer himself, or to such other person as that officer may direct, and such report may, according as such chief officer directs, be required to be made personally or by letter.
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If any person to whom this section applies fails to comply with any of the requisitions of this section, he shall, in any such case, be guilty of an offence against this Act, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court before whom he is tried, either that being on a journey he tarried no longer in the place, in respect of which he is charged with failing to notify his place of residence, than was reasonably necessary, or that otherwise he did his best to act in conformity with the law; and on conviction of such offence it shall be lawful for the court in its discretion either to forfeit his license, or to sentence him to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding one year.]
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[1 Her Majesty may by order of a Secretary of State remit any of the requirements of this section either generally or in the case of any person subject to the supervision of the police, 54 & 55 Vict. c 69. s. 4.This section is amended as to mode of notification and report, 42 & 43 Vict. c. 55. s. 2.]
[2 Words in brackets substituted by 54 & 55 Vict. c. 69. s. 4.] |
