Part III Dealing with offenders
Chapter I Community sentences
Renaming certain community orders
44 Community service orders renamed community punishment orders.
1
An order under subsection (1) of section 46 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (community service orders), whenever made, is to be referred to as a community punishment order.
2
References in any enactment, instrument or document to a community punishment order include (where the context allows) an order under any provision corresponding to that subsection which is repealed by that Act.
3
Accordingly—
a
in subsection (2) of that section, for “ “community service order”” there is substituted “
“community punishment order”
”
, but
b
paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 11 to that Act (general transitional provisions) does not apply to that subsection as amended by this.
4
References in any enactment, instrument or document to a community service order—
a
are to an order under any provision corresponding to section 46(1) of that Act which is repealed by that Act, and
b
include (where the context allows) an order under that subsection.
5
In section 163 of the M1Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (general definitions), in the definition of “community service order”—
a
for “service” there is substituted “
punishment
”
,
b
for the words from “means” to the first mention of “above” there is substituted “
has the meaning given by section 44 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000
”
,
and that definition is moved to follow the definition of “community order”.