The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 4 and Saving Provisions) Order 2012

Saving provision in relation to breaches of relevant orders which took place before 3rd December 2012

4.—(1) The coming into force of the following provisions of the Act is of no effect in relation to a failure to comply with a requirement of a relevant order where the failure took place before 3rd December 2012—

(a) section 67(1) to (6) (breach of community order) so far as those provisions are brought into force by article 2(a);

(b) section 69(1) and (2) (fine for breach of suspended sentence order); and

(c) section 84(1) to (3) (youth rehabilitation order: fine for breach).

(2) Where a failure to comply with a requirement of a relevant order is found to have taken place over a period of two or more days, or at some time during a period of two or more days, the failure is to be treated as having taken place on the last of those days.

(3) In this article “relevant order” means any of the following—

(a) a community order;

(b) a suspended sentence order;

(c) a youth rehabilitation order;

(d) a service community order;

(e) an overseas community order.