191Power to provide for review of suspended sentence orderE+W
(1)A suspended sentence order [F1that imposes one or more community requirements] may—
(a)provide for the order to be reviewed periodically at specified intervals,
(b)provide for each review to be made, subject to section 192(4), at a hearing held for the purpose by the court responsible for the order (a “review hearing”),
(c)require the offender to attend each review hearing, and
(d)provide for [F2an officer of a provider of probation services] to make to the court responsible for the order, before each review, a report on the offender’s progress in complying with the community requirements of the order.
(2)Subsection (1) does not apply in the case of an order imposing a drug rehabilitation requirement (provision for such a requirement to be subject to review being made by section 210).
(3)In this section references to the court responsible for a suspended sentence order are references—
(a)where a court is specified in the order in accordance with subsection (4), to that court;
(b)in any other case, to the court by which the order is made.
(4)Where the area specified in a suspended sentence order made by a magistrates' court is not the area for which the court acts, the court may, if it thinks fit, include in the order provision specifying for the purpose of subsection (3) a magistrates' court which acts for the area specified in the order.
(5)Where a suspended sentence order has been made on an appeal brought from the Crown Court or from the criminal division of the Court of Appeal, it is to be taken for the purposes of subsection (3)(b) to have been made by the Crown Court.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 191(1) inserted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 9 para. 5 (with s. 68(7)); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(g)
F2Words in s. 191(1)(d) substituted (1.6.2014) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 2014/1287, art. 2(d)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 190-192 excluded (28.3.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 31.10.2009) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 201, 383; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4
C2S. 191 modified (28.3.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 31.10.2009) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 203(1), 383; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4
Commencement Information
I1S. 191 wholly in force at 4.4.2005, see s. 336(3) and S.I. 2005/950, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 9 (subject to art. 2(2), Sch. 2)