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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

moved Amendment No. 20: 20: After Clause 103, insert the following new Clause— ““Notice of applications (1) This section applies to— (a) any application under section 99 for a violent offender order, (b) any application under section 103 for an interim violent offender order, and (c) any application under section 102 for the variation, discharge or renewal of a violent offender order, or for the variation or discharge of an interim violent offender order. (2) A magistrates’ court may not begin hearing such an application unless it is satisfied that the relevant person has been given notice of— (a) the application, and (b) the time and place of the hearing, a reasonable time before the hearing. (3) In this section ““the relevant person”” means— (a) the person to whom the application mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) relates, or (b) the person in respect of whom the order mentioned in subsection (1)(c) has been made, as the case may be.”” On Question, amendment agreed to. Clause 115 [Interpretation of Part 7]: