Cap. 518 ст. 9Changesinnotified information.

(1) A relevant offender must, within the period of three days beginning with -

(a) his using a name which has not been notified to the Registrar under article 8(1) or this sub-article,

(b) any change of his home address,

(c) his having resided or stayed, for a qualifying period, at any premises in Malta the address of which has not been notified to the Registrar under article 8(1) or this sub-article, or

(d) his release from custody pursuant to an order of a court or from imprisonment or detention in a hospital, notify to the police that name, the new home address, the address of those premises or, as the case may be, the fact that he has been released, and, in addition, the information set out in article 8(4).

(2) A notification under sub-article (1) may be given before the name is used, the change of home address occurs or the qualifying period ends, but in that case the relevant offender must also specify the date when the event is expected to occur.

(3) If a notification is given in accordance with sub-article (2) and the event to which it relates occurs more than two days before the date specified, the notification does not affect the duty imposed by sub-article (1).

(4) If a notification is given in accordance with sub-article (2) and the event to which it relates has not occurred by the end of the period of three days beginning with the date specified -

(a) the notification does not affect the duty imposed by sub-article (1), and

(b) the relevant offender must, within the period of six days beginning with the date specified, notify to the police the fact that the event did not occur within the period of three days beginning with the date specified.

(5) Article 8(5) applies to the determination of the period of three days mentioned in sub-article (1) and the period of six days mentioned in sub-article (4)(b), as it applies to the determination of the period mentioned in article 8(1).

(6) In this article, "qualifying period" means -

(a) a period of seven days, or the information set out in article 8(4) unless within that period he has given a notification under article 9(1).

(2) The events to which reference is made in sub-article (1) are:

(a) the commencement of this article, but only in the case of a person who is a relevant offender from that commencement;

(b) any notification given by the relevant offender under articles 8(1) or 9(1); and

(c) any notification given by him under sub-article (1).

(3) Where the period referred to in sub-article (1) would, apart from this sub-article, end whilst sub-article (4) applies to the relevant offender, that period is to be treated as continuing until the end of the period of three days beginning when sub-article (4) first ceases to apply to the relevant offender.

(4) The provisions of this sub-article apply to the relevant offender if he is -

(a) remanded in or committed to custody by an order of a court,

(b) serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention,

(c) detained in a hospital, or

(d) outside Malta.