Section 4: Variations, renewals and discharges Discharges
A scenario in which the police or the defendant may apply to discharge an order before it expires is if they are satisfied that the order is no longer necessary to protect the victim from risk of stalking.
	Subsection (4)(b) sets out that the court may not discharge an order before the end of two years from the day on which the order was made1 without the consent of the defendant and, where the application was made by the chief officer of police, by the appropriate chief officer of police. Which chief officer of police is required to give consent depends on which chief officer of police had applied for the order and, if the order was applied for by the chief officer of the British Transport Police or the chief officer of the Ministry of Defence Police and the defendant lives in England and Wales, the chief officer of police in the area in which the defendant lives.
	A scenario in which the defendant may not consent for the order to be discharged is if they still consider themselves to pose a risk of stalking to the other person.