Explanatory Notes

Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 38

8 November 2006

Commentary on Sections

Part 1: Alcohol-related violence and disorder

Chapter 1: Drinking banning orders
Section 10: Appeals

110.Subsection (1) provides the route through which appeals against the making of a DBO in the magistrates’ courts can be made to the Crown Court.

111.Subsection (2) 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 (3) 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 (sections 5 and 8) as an order of the magistrates’ court from which the appeal was brought.