P ART 1 10 N OTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE OFFENDERS 1 Notification requirements 1 Persons subject to notification requirements (1) A person is subject to the notification requirements of this Part for the period set out in section 2 (“the notification period”) if— 15 (a) the person has, on or after the day on which this section comes into force, been convicted on indictment of an offence involving domestic abuse, and (b) in respect of that conviction— (i) a sentence of imprisonment for a period of 12 months or more was imposed and the person been released from imprisonment, or 20 (ii) the person is subject to a community payback order imposed under section 227A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 imposing an offender supervision requirement (within the meaning given by section 227G(1) of that Act) whether alone or along with any other requirement. (2) In this Part, “offence involving domestic abuse” means— 25 (a) an offence under section 1(1) (abusive behaviour towards partner or ex-partner) of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018, (b) an offence under section 17 (breach of domestic abuse protection order) of the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021, SP Bill 67 Session 6 (2025) 2 Prevention of Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill Part 1—Notification requirements for domestic abuse offenders (c) any other offence where the offence is aggravated as described in section 1(1)(a) (aggravation where abuse of partner or ex-partner) of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016. (3) A person for the time being subject to the notification requirements of this Part is 5 referred to in this Part as a “domestic abuse offender”. 2 The notification period (1) The notification period for a domestic abuse offender is— (a) in a case where a sentence of imprisonment for a period of between 12 months and 30 months has been imposed in respect of the conviction, the relevant period 10 beginning with the date of conviction, 1 (b) in a case where a sentence of imprisonment for a period longer than 30 months has been imposed in respect of the conviction, an indefinite period beginning with the date of conviction, (c) in a case where the offender is subject to a community payback order imposed 15 under section 227A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in respect of the conviction, the period, beginning with the date of conviction, during which the community payback order is in effect. (2) In subsection (1)(a), the “relevant period”, in respect of a conviction, is 3 times the length of the period of imprisonment that was imposed in respect of the conviction. 20 (3) Where a person is aged under 18 on the date of conviction, subsection (1) has effect as if for the reference to the relevant period there were substituted a reference to one-half of the relevant period. (4) Subsection (5) applies where a domestic abuse offender is or has been sentenced, in respect of two or more offences involving domestic abuse— 25 (a) to consecutive terms of imprisonment, or (b) to terms of imprisonment which are partly concurrent. (5) Where this subsection applies, subsection (1) has effect as if the domestic abuse offender were or had been sentenced, in respect of each of the offences, to a term of imprisonment which— 30 (a) in the case of consecutive terms, is equal to the aggregate of those terms, (b) in the case of partly concurrent terms (X and Y, which overlap for a period Z...