20.If an appeal to POAC is successful, and an order has been made deproscribing the organisation, anyone convicted of one of the offences listed in subsection (1)(c) in respect of the organisation, so long as the offence was committed after the date of the refusal to deproscribe, may, in England and Wales, appeal against his conviction to the Court of Appeal or Crown Court, and the Court will allow the appeal. Subsection (8) ensures that he can seek compensation for the conviction. Corresponding provision is made for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Commentary Part Ii: Proscribed Organisations Sections 7–8: Appeal: effect on conviction