Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

45 Referral orders: revocation on further conviction

(1) The Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 14(1)(b) (further conviction: cases where revocation not available), for “absolutely” substitute “, whether absolutely or conditionally”,

(b) for paragraph 14(2) substitute—

“(2) The court may revoke the referral order (or any one or more of the referral orders) if it appears to the court to be in the interests of justice to do so.

(2A) The revocation of a referral order under sub-paragraph (2) has the effect of revoking any related order under paragraph 9ZD or 10.”, and

(c) in the heading before paragraph 14, for “which lead to revocation of referral” substitute “: power to revoke referral orders”.

(3) In section 18 (making of referral orders: general), after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A) Where a court makes a referral order in respect of an offender who is subject to an earlier referral order, the court may direct that any youth offender contract under the later order is not to take effect under section 23 until the earlier order is revoked or discharged.”

(4) The amendments made by this section apply in relation to a person dealt with for an offence committed before or after this section comes into force.