Special provision for treatment and reporting of sex offenders

(1) Where a person is convicted of a sexual offence specified in sub-section (2) below and unlawful sexual intercourse, the court shall, in addition to the penalties prescribed for that offence, order that such convicted person be 63 subject to counselling, medical or psychiatric treatment, as the court may consider appropriate having regards to the facts of the case– (a) undergo mandatory counselling and receive such medical or psychiatric treatment as the court may consider appropriate having regard to the facts of the case; and (b) shall not change his residence without prior notification to the Commissioner of Police and to the Director of Human Development in the Ministry responsible for Human Development, Women and Youth, and shall comply with such other requirements as the Commissioner of Police may specify for the protection of the public. (2) In this section, “sexual offence” means rape, attempted rape, marital rape, carnal knowledge, forcible abduction, unnatural offence, incest or indecent assault. (3) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with an order made under sub-section (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one thousand dollars, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (4) It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Prisons to notify the Commissioner of Police and the Director of Human Development as soon as the person referred to in sub-section (1) is released from the Prison after serving sentence for a sexual