Explanatory Notes

Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

2008 CHAPTER 4

8 May 2008

The Act

Commentary on Sections

Part 7: Violent offender orders
Section 106: Appeals

623.This section provides for appeals to the Crown Court against the making of a VOO or an interim order, or against a decision to make or refuse an order varying or discharging a VOO or an interim order.

624.Subsection (3) provides that on an appeal the Crown Court may make such orders as may be necessary and may also make such incidental or consequential orders as appear to it to be just. Subsection (4) provides that an order of the Crown Court made on an appeal shall be treated for the purposes of the provisions relating to variation and discharge of orders (section 103) as an order of the magistrates’ court from which the appeal was brought.