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Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) Part 2—Notification and orders :(b) in any other case, the chief officer of police for the area in which the defendant resides.

(6) Section 124(2) applies for the purposes of this section.

(7) In this section “the appropriate court” means—
 * (a) the court which made the risk of sexual harm order;
 * (b) a magistrates’ court for the area in which the defendant resides; or
 * (c) where the application is made by a chief officer of police, any magistrates’ court whose commission area includes any part of his police area.

126 Interim RSHOs

(1) This section applies where an application for a risk of sexual harm order (“the main application”) has not been determined.

(2) An application for an order under this section (“an interim risk of sexual harm order”)—
 * (a) may be made by the complaint by which the main application is made, or
 * (b) if the main application has been made, may be made by the person who has made that application, by complaint to the court to which that application has been made.

(3) The court may, if it considers it just to do so, make an interim risk of sexual harm order, prohibiting the defendant from doing anything described in the order.

(4) Such an order—
 * (a) has effect only for a fixed period, specified in the order;
 * (b) ceases to have effect, if it has not already done so, on the determination of the main application.

(5) The applicant or the defendant may by complaint apply to the court that made the interim risk of sexual harm order for the order to be varied, renewed or discharged.

127 RSHOs and interim RSHOs: appeals

(1) A defendant may appeal to the Crown Court—
 * (a) against the making of a risk of sexual harm order;
 * (b) against the making of an interim risk of sexual harm order; or
 * (c) against the making of an order under section 125, or the refusal to make such an order.

(2) On any such appeal, the Crown 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.

(3) Any order made by the Crown Court on an appeal under subsection (1)(a) or (b) (other than an order directing that an application be re-heard by a magistrates’ court) is for the purpose of section 125(7) or 126(5) (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 Crown Court).