Part 2: Serious Disruption Prevention Orders Section 29: Appeal against serious disruption prevention order
Subsection (1) provides for a person issued with a SDPO on conviction may appeal against the decision to make an order as if the order was part of the sentence for the offence for which they were convicted. As such, the appellate court will either be the Crown Court (where an order was made on conviction in a magistrates’ court) or the Court of Appeal (where an order was made on conviction in the Crown Court).
	Subsection (2) provides for a right of appeal against the making of a SDPO otherwise on conviction. The appeal is to the appropriate court as defined in subsection (5), namely the Crown Court.
	Subsection (3) enables the person who applied for a SDPO otherwise than on conviction to appeal against the decision of the court to refuse to make an order. The appeal is to the appropriate court as defined in subsection (5), namely the Crown Court.
	Subsection (4) provides for a right of appeal to the appropriate court as defined in subsection (5) in relation to the variation, renewal or discharge of a SDPO. The persons who may appeal here are:
the person who applied for a SDPO to be varied, renewed or discharged may appeal if their application is refused.
the person subject to a SDPO may appeal against a SDPO which has been varied or renewed.
a person specified in Section 28(2), other than the individual subject to a SDPO, may appeal against the varying, renewing or discharge of a SDPO, which occurred following an application by the person subject to the SDPO.
	Subsection (6) enables the Crown Court, on granting an appeal, to a make such orders necessary to give effect to its determination of the appeal and any appropriate consequential and incidental orders.