law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  356.Order for notifying address of previously convicted offender.-
  (1) When any person, having been convicted by
  
  a Court in India of an offence punishable under section 215, section 489A,
  
  section 489B, section 489C, or section 489D of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860),
  
  or of any offence punishable under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII of that Code,
  
  with imprisonment for a term of three years or upwards, is again convicted of
  
  any offence punishable under any of those sections or Chapters with
  
  imprisonment for a term of three years or upwards by any Court other than that
  
  of a Magistrate of the second class, such Court may, if it thinks fit, at the
  
  time of passing a sentence of imprisonment on such person, also order that his
  
  residence and any change of, or absence from, such residence after release be
  
  notified as hereinafter provided for a term not exceeding five years from the
  
  date of the expiration of such sentence.
  (2) The provisions of sub-section (1) with reference to the offences named
  
  therein, apply also to criminal conspiracies to commit such offences and to the
  
  abetment of such offences and attempts to commit them.
  (3) If such conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise, such order shall
  
  become void.
  (4) An order under this section may also be made by an Appellate Court or by
  
  the High Court or Court of Session when exercising its powers of revision.
  (5) The State Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the
  
  provisions of this section relating to the notification of residence or change
  
  of, or absence from, residence by released convicts.
  (6) Such rules may provide for punishment for the breach thereof and any person
  
  charged with a breach of any such rule may be tried by a Magistrate of
  
  competent jurisdiction in the district in which the place last notified by him
  
  as his place of residence is situated.