(1) References in this Part to a person being dealt with for or in respect of an offence are to their being sentenced, or made subject to a hospital order, in respect of the offence.

References in this Part to an offence being dealt with are to a person being dealt with in respect of the offence.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, references in this Part to the time at which a person is dealt with for an offence are to the time at which they are first dealt with -

(a) in England and Wales, by a magistrates' court or the Crown Court;

(b) in Scotland, by a sheriff or by the High Court of Justiciary;

(c) in Northern Ireland, by the county court.

This is referred to below as "the original decision".

(3) Where the original decision is varied (on appeal or otherwise), then -

(a) if the result is that the conditions for application of the notification requirements to a person in respect of an offence cease to be met (and paragraph (c) below does not apply), the notification requirements are treated as never having applied to that person in respect of that offence;