204Curfew requirementE+W
(1)In this Part “curfew requirement”, in relation to a relevant order, means a requirement that the offender must remain, for periods specified in the relevant order, at a place so specified.
(2)A relevant order imposing a curfew requirement may specify different places or different periods for different days, but may not specify periods which amount to less than two hours or more than [F1sixteen] hours in any day.
(3)A community order or suspended sentence order which imposes a curfew requirement may not specify periods which fall outside the period of [F2twelve] months beginning with the day on which it is made.
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(6)Before making a relevant order imposing a curfew requirement, the court must obtain and consider information about the place proposed to be specified in the order (including information as to the attitude of persons likely to be affected by the enforced presence there of the offender).
Textual Amendments
F1Word in s. 204(2) substituted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), ss. 71(2), 151(1); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(a) (with art. 3)
F2Word in s. 204(3) substituted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), ss. 71(3), 151(1); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(a) (with art. 3)
F3S. 204(4)(5) omitted (3.12.2012) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 10 para. 17; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(h)
Commencement Information
I1S. 204 partly in force; s. 204 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 336(3); s. 204(1)(2)(5)(6) in force for certain purposes at 26.1.2004 by S.I. 2003/3282, art. 2, Sch.; s. 204(1)-(3)(6) in force at 4.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/950, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 13 (subject to art. 2(2), Sch. 2)