Section 57.

Introductory

1 A "notification order" is an order applying the notification requirements of this Part to a person who has been dealt with outside the United Kingdom in respect of a corresponding foreign offence.

Corresponding foreign offences

2

(1) A "corresponding foreign offence" means an act that -

(a) constituted an offence under the law in force in a country outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) corresponds to an offence to which this Part applies.

(2) For this purpose an act punishable under the law in force in a country outside the United Kingdom is regarded as constituting an offence under that law however it is described in that law.

(3) An act corresponds to an offence to which this Part applies if -

(a) it would have constituted an offence to which this Part applies by virtue of section 41 if it had been done in any part of the United Kingdom, or

(b) it was, or took place in the course of, an act of terrorism or was done for the purposes of terrorism.