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order include (where the context allows) an order under any provision corresponding to that subsection which is repealed by that Act.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are to an order under any provision corresponding to section 46(1) of that Act which is repealed by that Act, and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”.