Sentencing Act 2020

8 Deferment order: supervisor

Appointment of supervisor

(1) Where a court makes a deferment order that imposes deferment requirements, it may appoint—

(a) an officer of a provider of probation services, or

(b) any other person the court thinks appropriate who consents to the appointment,

to act as a supervisor in relation to the offender.

Function of supervisor

(2) A supervisor must—

(a) monitor the offender’s compliance with the deferment requirements, and

(b) provide the court which deals with the offender for any offence in respect of which the order was made with such information as the court may require relating to the offender’s compliance with the deferment requirements.

Supervisor appointed under subsection (1)(b): power of magistrates’ court to issue summons

(3) Where—

(a) a deferment order imposes deferment requirements,

(b) it falls to a magistrates’ court to—

(i) deal with the offender for any offence in respect of which the order was made, or

(ii) determine under section 9(3)(b) whether the offender has failed to comply with a deferment requirement, and

(c) a justice of the peace is satisfied that a supervisor appointed under subsection (1)(b)—

(i) is likely to be able to give evidence that may assist the court in doing so, and

(ii) will not voluntarily attend as a witness,

the justice may issue a summons directed to that supervisor requiring the supervisor to attend before the court at the time and place appointed in the summons to give evidence.