Sentencing Act 2020

101 Final meeting

(1) This section applies where—

(a) a youth offender contract has taken effect between a youth offender panel and an offender, and

(b) the compliance period is due to expire.

(2) The specified youth offending team must arrange a meeting of the panel (“the final meeting”) to be held before the end of the compliance period.

(3) At the final meeting the panel must—

(a) review the extent of the offender’s compliance to date with the youth offender contract,

(b) decide whether or not the offender’s compliance with the contract justifies the conclusion that the offender will have satisfactorily completed the contract by the end of the compliance period, and

(c) give the offender written confirmation of its decision.

(4) A decision that the conclusion mentioned in subsection (3)(b) is justified—

(a) has the effect of discharging the referral order (or orders) as from the end of the compliance period, and

(b) can be made in the offender’s absence.

(5) If the panel decides that that conclusion is not justified, it must refer the offender back to court.

(6) Nothing in section 92(3) permits the final meeting to be adjourned (or re-adjourned) to a time after the end of the compliance period.