{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968/section-16A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968/section-16A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/19",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Appeal Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968",
  "path": "section/16A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16A",
  "heading": "Right of appeal against hospital order etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person in whose case the Crown Court—\n(a) makes a hospital order or interim hospital order by virtue of section 5 or 5A of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964, or\n(b) makes a supervision order under section 5 of that Act,\nmay appeal to the Court of Appeal against the order.\n(2) An appeal under this section lies only—\n(a) with the leave of the Court of Appeal; or\n(b) if the judge of the court of trial grants a certificate that the case is fit for appeal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 16A, 16B and cross-heading inserted (31.3.2005) by Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28), ss. 25, 60; S.I. 2005/579, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/19/section/16A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:31.036600+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}