Sentencing Act 2020

Modifications of Part 2 of Schedule 16 etc

23 (1) Part 2 of Schedule 16 (breach of community requirement and effect of further conviction), apart from paragraphs 6 and 7, applies as if—

(a) any reference to the responsible officer were to the relevant officer;

(b) any reference to a magistrates’ court acting in the offender’s home local justice area were to a magistrates’ court acting in the same local justice area as the original court;

(c) any reference to a justice of the peace acting in the offender’s home local justice area were to a justice of the peace acting in the same local justice area as the original court;

(d) any reference to the appropriate court were to the original court;

(e) for sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph 8(3)(b) there were substituted “the same local justice area as the original court”.

(2) No court in England and Wales may exercise any power in relation to any breach by the offender of a community requirement of the order unless the offender has been required to appear before that court in accordance with paragraph 20(1)(b) or (3)(a).