THIRD GROUP OF PARTSDisposals
PART 9Community sentences
CHAPTER 2Community orders
Making a community order
212Provision of copies of community order and related documents
(1)
This section applies when a court makes a community order.
(2)
The court must forthwith provide copies of the order—
(a)
to the offender,
(b)
to the responsible officer,
(c)
to an officer of a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider who is acting at the court, and
(d)
if the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, to a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider and is operating in that area.
(3)
If the order imposes any requirement specified in column 1 of the following table, the court must also forthwith provide the person specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 with a copy of so much of the order as relates to the requirement.
The requirement | The person to whom a copy must be provided |
|---|---|
An exclusion requirement imposed for the purpose (or partly for the purpose) of protecting a person from being approached by the offender | The person intended to be protected |
A residence requirement relating to residence in an institution | The person in charge of the institution |
A mental health treatment requirement | The person specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(iii) of Schedule 9 or the person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(i) or (ii) of that Schedule |
A drug rehabilitation requirement | The person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 19(5)(b) or (c) of Schedule 9 |
An alcohol treatment requirement | The person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 23(5)(c) or (d) of Schedule 9 or, in the case of practitioner-based treatment, the person specified under paragraph 23(5)(a) of that Schedule |
An electronic monitoring requirement | Any person who by virtue of paragraph 31(1) of Schedule 9 will be responsible for the electronic monitoring |
Any person without whose consent the requirement could not be included in the order. |
(4)
If the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, it must provide the magistrates' court acting in that area with—
(a)
a copy of the order, and
(b)
such documents and information relating to the case as it considers likely to be of assistance to a court acting in that area in the exercise of its functions in relation to the order.
(5)
In subsection (2) “public sector provider” means—
(a)
a probation trust or other public body, or
(b)
the Secretary of State.