Part IVCommunity orders and reparation orders

Chapter VCommunity orders available only where offender aged under 18

Action plan orders

71Action plan orders: power to fix further hearings

(1)

Immediately after making an action plan order, a court may—

(a)

fix a further hearing for a date not more than 21 days after the making of the order; and

(b)

direct the responsible officer to make, at that hearing, a report as to the effectiveness of the order and the extent to which it has been implemented.

(2)

At a hearing fixed under subsection (1) above, the court—

(a)

shall consider the responsible officer’s report; and

(b)

may, on the application of the responsible officer or the offender, amend the order—

(i)

by cancelling any provision included in it; or

(ii)

by inserting in it (either in addition to or in substitution for any of its provisions) any provision that the court could originally have included in it.