Part 12

Sentencing
Chapter 2

Community orders: offenders aged 16 or over

Community orders
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1
Where a person aged 16 or over is convicted of an offence, the court by or before which he is convicted may make an order (in this Part referred to as a “community order”) imposing on him any one or more of the following requirements—
a
an unpaid work requirement (as defined by section 199),
b
an activity requirement (as defined by section 201),
c
a programme requirement (as defined by section 202),
d
a prohibited activity requirement (as defined by section 203),
e
a curfew requirement (as defined by section 204),
f
an exclusion requirement (as defined by section 205),
g
a residence requirement (as defined by section 206),
h
a mental health treatment requirement (as defined by section 207),
i
a drug rehabilitation requirement (as defined by section 209),
j
an alcohol treatment requirement (as defined by section 212),
k
a supervision requirement (as defined by section 213), and
l
in a case where the offender is aged under 25, an attendance centre requirement (as defined by section 214).
2
Subsection (1) has effect subject to sections 150 and 218 and to the following provisions of Chapter 4 relating to particular requirements—
a
section 199(3) (unpaid work requirement),
b
section 201(3) and (4) (activity requirement),
c
section 202(4) and (5) (programme requirement),
d
section 203(2) (prohibited activity requirement),
e
section 207(3) (mental health treatment requirement),
f
section 209(2) (drug rehabilitation requirement), and
g
section 212(2) and (3) (alcohol treatment requirement).
3
Where the court makes a community order imposing a curfew requirement or an exclusion requirement, the court must also impose an electronic monitoring requirement (as defined by section 215) unless—
a
it is prevented from doing so by section 215(2) or 218(4), or
b
in the particular circumstances of the case, it considers it inappropriate to do so.
4
Where the court makes a community order imposing an unpaid work requirement, an activity requirement, a programme requirement, a prohibited activity requirement, a residence requirement, a mental health treatment requirement, a drug rehabilitation requirement, an alcohol treatment requirement, a supervision requirement or an attendance centre requirement, the court may also impose an electronic monitoring requirement unless prevented from doing so by section 215(2) or 218(4).
5
A community order must specify a date, not more than three years after the date of the order, by which all the requirements in it must have been complied with; and a community order which imposes two or more different requirements falling within subsection (1) may also specify an earlier date or dates in relation to compliance with any one or more of them.
6
Before making a community order imposing two or more different requirements falling within subsection (1), the court must consider whether, in the circumstances of the case, the requirements are compatible with each other.