Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44)

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10(1)Paragraph 8 of Schedule 12 (powers of court in case of breach of community requirement or conviction of further offence) is amended as follows.

(2)In sub-paragraph (2), at the beginning of paragraph (c) insert “in the case of a suspended sentence order that imposes one or more community requirements,”.

(3)After that paragraph insert—

(d)in the case of a suspended sentence order that does not impose any community requirements, the court may, subject to section 189(3), amend the order by extending the operational period.

(4)In sub-paragraph (4)(a), for “the community requirements” substitute “any community requirements”.

(5)In sub-paragraph (8), for “the community” substitute “any community”.