Sex Offenders (Amendment) Act 2023

Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act

11. Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

“(2) For the purposes of such application, section 10 shall have effect as if for subsection (1) there were substituted the following subsection:

‘(1) A person who is subject to the requirements of this Part shall, before the end of the period of 3 days beginning with—

(a) in case the person is already resident in the State upon his or her so first returning and paragraph (c) does not apply, the date on which the person first returns to the State after being convicted of the offence concerned,

(b) in case the person is not so resident and paragraph (c) does not apply, the date on which the person first becomes resident in the State after being convicted of the offence concerned, or

(c) in case the date on which the person so first returns to, or becomes resident in, the State is prior to the coming into operation of section 11 of the Sex Offenders (Amendment) Act 2023, the date of such coming into operation,

notify to the Garda Síochána—

(i) his or her name on the date on which the notification is given,

(ii) where he or she also uses, or at any time previously used, one or more other names, each of those names,

(iii) his or her home address on the date on which the notification is given,

(iv) the address of each other place (if any), whether in or outside the State, at which, on the date on which the notification is given, he or she resides or regularly stays, and

(v) the address of each other place (if any), whether in or outside the State, at which the person has resided or regularly stayed since the date on which he or she was convicted of the offence concerned.’.”.