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108 SOPOs: variations, renewals and discharges
(1) A person within subsection (2) may apply to the appropriate court for an order varying, renewing or discharging a sexual offences prevention order.
(2) The persons are—
(a) the defendant;
(b) the chief officer of police for the area in which the defendant resides;
(c) a chief officer of police who believes that the defendant is in, or is intending to come to, his police area;
(d) where the order was made on an application under section 104(5), the chief officer of police who made the application.
(3) An application under subsection (1) may be made—
(a) where the appropriate court is the Crown Court, in accordance with rules of court;
(b) in any other case, by complaint.
(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), on the application the court, after hearing the person making the application and (if they wish to be heard) the other persons mentioned in subsection (2), may make any order, varying, renewing or discharging the sexual offences prevention order, that the court considers appropriate.
(5) An order may be renewed, or varied so as to impose additional prohibitions or requirements on the defendant, only if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of protecting the public or any particular members of the public from serious sexual harm from the defendant (and any renewed or varied order may contain only such prohibitions or requirements as are necessary for this purpose).
(6) The court must not discharge an order before the end of 5 years beginning with the day on which the order was made, without the consent of the defendant and—
(a) where the application is made by a chief officer of police, that chief officer, or
(b) in any other case, the chief officer of police for the area in which the defendant resides.
(7) In this section “the appropriate court” means—
(a) where the Crown Court or the Court of Appeal made the sexual offences prevention order, the Crown Court;
(b) where a magistrates' court made the order, that court, a magistrates' court for the area in which the defendant resides or, where the application is made by a chief officer of police, any magistrates' court whose commission area includes any part of the chief officer’s police area;
(c) where a youth court made the order, that court, a youth court for the area in which the defendant resides or, where the application is made by a chief officer of police, any youth court whose commission area includes any part of the chief officer’s police area.
(8) This section applies to orders under—
(a) section 5A of the Sex Offenders Act 1997 (c. 51) (restraining orders),
(b) section ... 20 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37) (sex offender orders made in ... Scotland), and
(c) Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2839 (N.I. 20)) (sex offender orders made in Northern Ireland),
as it applies to sexual offences prevention orders.
Your change, as a redline
108 SOPOs: variations, renewals and discharges
(1) A person within subsection (2) may apply to the appropriate court for an order varying, renewing or discharging a sexual offences prevention order.
(2) The persons are—
(a) the defendant;
(b) the chief officer of police for the area in which the defendant resides;
(c) a chief officer of police who believes that the defendant is in, or is intending to come to, his police area;
(d) where the order was made on an application under section 104(5), the chief officer of police who made the application.
(3) An application under subsection (1) may be made—
(a) where the appropriate court is the Crown Court, in accordance with rules of court;
(b) in any other case, by complaint.
(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), on the application the court, after hearing the person making the application and (if they wish to be heard) the other persons mentioned in subsection (2), may make any order, varying, renewing or discharging the sexual offences prevention order, that the court considers appropriate.
(5) An order may be renewed, or varied so as to impose additional prohibitions or requirements on the defendant, only if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of protecting the public or any particular members of the public from serious sexual harm from the defendant (and any renewed or varied order may contain only such prohibitions or requirements as are necessary for this purpose).
(6) The court must not discharge an order before the end of 5 years beginning with the day on which the order was made, without the consent of the defendant and—
(a) where the application is made by a chief officer of police, that chief officer, or
(b) in any other case, the chief officer of police for the area in which the defendant resides.
(7) In this section “the appropriate court” means—
(a) where the Crown Court or the Court of Appeal made the sexual offences prevention order, the Crown Court;
(b) where a magistrates' court made the order, that court, a magistrates' court for the area in which the defendant resides or, where the application is made by a chief officer of police, any magistrates' court whose commission area includes any part of the chief officer’s police area;
(c) where a youth court made the order, that court, a youth court for the area in which the defendant resides or, where the application is made by a chief officer of police, any youth court whose commission area includes any part of the chief officer’s police area.
(8) This section applies to orders under—
(a) section 5A of the Sex Offenders Act 1997 (c. 51) (restraining orders),
(b) section ... 20 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37) (sex offender orders made in ... Scotland), and
(c) Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2839 (N.I. 20)) (sex offender orders made in Northern Ireland),
as it applies to sexual offences prevention orders.
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