{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-358E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-358E.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/358E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "358E",
  "heading": "Variation and discharge of orders",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a person mentioned in subsection (2) applies to a relevant court for the variation or discharge of a CCE prevention order.\n(2) The persons are—\n(a) the offender;\n(b) the chief officer of police for the police area in which the offender lives;\n(c) a chief officer of police who believes that the offender is in, or is intending to come to, the chief officer’s police area.\n(3) On the application, the court may (after hearing from the applicant and any other person mentioned in subsection (2) who wishes to be heard) make any order varying or discharging the order that the court considers appropriate.\nThis is subject to subsection (7).\n(4) The power to vary an order includes power to—\n(a) include an additional prohibition or requirement;\n(b) extend the period for which a prohibition or requirement has effect;\n(c) extend the period for which the order has effect.\n(5) The court may make provision of a kind mentioned in subsection (4) only if it considers that the provision is necessary to prevent the offender from engaging, or reduce the likelihood of the offender engaging, in child criminal exploitation.\n(6) Subsections (3), (4) and (6) of section 358B apply to additional prohibitions or requirements included on a variation of an order.\n(7) The court may not discharge an order before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which the order was made, without the consent of the offender and—\n(a) the chief officer of police for the police area in which the offender lives, or\n(b) where the application is made by a chief officer of police, that chief officer.\n(8) In this section “relevant court” means—\n(a) where the Crown Court or the Court of Appeal made the order, the Crown Court;\n(b) in any other case, any magistrates’ court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 11 Ch. 2A inserted (21.9.2026 for the insertion of s. 358I(2)(4), otherwise prosp.) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), s. 255(1), Sch. 6 para. 1; S.I. 2026/960, reg. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/358E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+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."
}