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Giving new bank details to the police whilst on the sex offenders register

You can apply to the Crown Court that imposed the original order to either vary or discharge the order. I note that your order is very old and pre-dates some important case law. Most notable of these cases was R v Smith & others 2011. As a result of this case, disproportionate orders, for instance, those banning all use of the internet, were found to be unlawful. The same with conditions that duplicated the terms of the notification requirements. If your order isn't 'Smith' compliant, it may be easier than you think to get it either varied or discharged. I would recommend that you find a solicitor locally who can have a look at your 'order' and advise on the prospects of either having it discharged or perhaps varied.

How can you discharge a SOPO? 

You do not mention whether the Suspended Sentence Order was conditional or with conditions. Either way, the operational period of the Suspended Sentence Order is 2 years from the date on which you were sentenced in April 2017. As I hope was explained to you at the time by your legal representative, breach of the Order, either by way of conviction for a criminal offence during the 2 year operational period or by not keeping to the terms of the Order, could result in the suspended 12 month term of imprisonment being activated in whole or in part, unless it was not in the interests of justice for that prison term to be activated.

In short, if your Offender Manager at the National Probation Service wishes to see you at any time during the two year operational period then it is in your interests to keep to that requirement in order to avoid the risk of being breached and being returned to Court for Committal for Breach.

You are correct in assuming that the operational period of the Suspended Sentence Order runs for 2 years from April 2017 until the second anniversary of your sentencing date in April 2019.

I am trying to establish how long I need to see the national probation services.

Giving new bank details to the police whilst on the sex offenders register

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