SCHEDULES
C1SCHEDULE 7Breach, revocation or amendment of youth rehabilitation order
C1PART 4Amendment of order
Amendment by appropriate court
I1C115
1
This paragraph applies where—
a
a youth rehabilitation order is in force, and
b
an application for the amendment of the order is made to the appropriate court by—
i
the offender, or
ii
the responsible officer.
2
If the appropriate court is satisfied that the offender proposes to reside, or is residing, in a local justice area (a “new local justice area”) other than the offender's home local justice area for the time being specified in the order, the court—
a
must, if the responsible officer made the application under sub-paragraph (1)(b), or
b
may, in any other case,
amend the youth rehabilitation order to specify the new local justice area as the offender's home local justice area.
This is subject to paragraph 16.
3
The appropriate court may by order amend the youth rehabilitation order—
a
by cancelling any of the youth rehabilitation requirements of the order, or
b
by replacing any of those requirements with a youth rehabilitation requirement of the same kind which it could include in a youth rehabilitation order if, applying the relevant assumptions, it were now making such an order in respect of the relevant offence.
This is subject to paragraph 17.
4
In this paragraph—
“relevant offence” means the offence in respect of which the youth rehabilitation order was made, and
the “relevant assumptions” are that—
- a
the offender has just been convicted by or before the appropriate court of the relevant offence, and
- b
the offender is the same age as when in fact convicted of that offence.
- a
Sch. 7 applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 4, s. 39(6)(c), Sch. 7 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 paras. 266(5), 270 (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)