Glitter - real name Paul Gadd - had been under a foreign travel ban since he was deported from Vietnam in August 2008.
He had served a three-year jail sentence there for molesting two girls aged 11 and 10 and only just avoided a potential death sentence when rape charges were dropped.
A foreign travel order imposed by magistrates had forced him to give up his passport, but it expired at midnight and the Metropolitan police did not apply to renew it.
It effectively means Glitter, 67, is no longer considered a threat after "making efforts to address his offending," one source told me.
He is signed on to the Sex Offenders Register for life, so must still tell police if he is planning to travel abroad for more than three days.
Police may warn a country he is heading for and he could be barred from entering on arrival.
When Vietnam kicked him out in 2008 he was refused entry by 19 countries and eventually came back to the UK.
On his return magistrates imposed a travel ban. It is thought to have been renewed twice since then.
Glitter had opposed the ban renewals because he said he wanted to visit France, but his appeals were rejected.
He was jailed in the UK in 1999 for having 4,000 child abuse images on a computer he had taken into a store for repairs.
He is still subject to monitoring by police, health and social workers under the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements system.
A spokeswoman for the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre said: "Where relevant, UK law enforcement shares intelligence with international jurisdictions when it is known that individuals who may pose a threat to children are travelling to that country.
"Based on this information, the country may put in place measures to safeguard children and/or consider if the individual is desirable in their country."
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