Part 12

Sentencing
Chapter 3

Prison sentences of less than 12 months

Suspended sentences

Power to provide for review of suspended sentence order
191
1
A suspended sentence order 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 the responsible officer 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.