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Section 110: Appeals in relation to SOPOs and interim SOPOs: Northern Ireland

Sexual Offences Act 2003 · 2003 c. 42View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Notification and orders

A defendant may appeal against the making of a sexual offences prevention order—

where section 104(2) applied to him, as if the order were a sentence passed on him for the offence;
where section 104(3) (but not section 104(2)) applied to him, as if he had been convicted of the offence and the order were a sentence passed on him for that offence;
where the order was made on an application under section 104(5), to a county court.

A defendant may appeal to a county court against the making of an interim sexual offences prevention order.

A defendant may appeal against the making of an order under section 108, or the refusal to make such an order—

where the application for such an order was made to the Crown Court, to the Court of Appeal;
in any other case, to a county court.

On an appeal under subsection (1)(c), (2) or (3)(b), the county court may make such orders as may be necessary to give effect to its determination of the appeal, and may also make such incidental or consequential orders as appear to it to be just.

Any order made by a county court on an appeal under subsection (1)(c) or (2) (other than an order directing that an application be re-heard by a court of summary jurisdiction) is for the purposes of section 108(7) or 109(6) (respectively) to be treated as if it were an order of the court from which the appeal was brought (and not an order of the county court).

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