Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17 U.K. Transfer of suspended sentence orders to Scotland or Northern Ireland

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 17 applied (with modifications) by 2006 c. 52, ss. 200, 204 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 25 paras. 19, 22 (with s. 416(7), Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)

PART 8 U.K. Amendment of order: return to England and Wales

Making of order under this Part of this Schedule U.K.

38 (1) This paragraph applies where the home court exercises the power conferred by paragraph 35 to amend a relevant suspended sentence order which is an SSSO or NISSO. U.K.

(2) The relevant suspended sentence order as amended must specify the local justice area in which the offender resides or proposes to reside (“the new local justice area”).

(3) The home court must—

(a) provide copies of the amending order to—

(i) the offender,

(ii) the relevant officer, and

(iii) a provider of probation services operating in the new local justice area, and

(b) provide the magistrates' court acting in that area with—

(i) a copy of the amending order, and

(ii) such other documents and information relating to the case as the home court considers likely to be of assistance to a court acting in that area in the exercise of its functions in relation to the order.

This sub-paragraph applies in place of paragraph 28 of Schedule 16 (amendment of suspended sentence order: provision of copies).

(4) The relevant suspended sentence order ceases to be an SSSO or NISSO.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 17 para. 38 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2