THIRD GROUP OF PARTSDisposals

PART 9Community sentences

CHAPTER 2Community orders

Making a community order

I1C2212Provision of copies of community order and related documents

C3C4C11

This section applies when a court makes a community order.

C3C4C12

The court must forthwith provide copies of the order—

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to the offender,

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to the responsible officer,

c

to an officer of a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider who is acting at the court, and

d

if the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, to a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider and is operating in that area.

C3C4C1C53

If the order imposes any requirement specified in column 1 of the following table, the court must also forthwith provide the person specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 with a copy of so much of the order as relates to the requirement.

The requirement

The person to whom a copy must be provided

An exclusion requirement imposed for the purpose (or partly for the purpose) of protecting a person from being approached by the offender

The person intended to be protected

A residence requirement relating to residence in an institution

The person in charge of the institution

A mental health treatment requirement

The person specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(iii) of Schedule 9 or the person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(i) or (ii) of that Schedule

A drug rehabilitation requirement

The person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 19(5)(b) or (c) of Schedule 9

An alcohol treatment requirement

The person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 23(5)(c) or (d) of Schedule 9 or, in the case of practitioner-based treatment, the person specified under paragraph 23(5)(a) of that Schedule

An electronic monitoring requirement

Any person who by virtue of paragraph 31(1) of Schedule 9 will be responsible for the electronic monitoring

Any person without whose consent the requirement could not be included in the order.

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If the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, it must provide the magistrates' court acting in that area with—

a

a copy of the order, and

b

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

C3C4C15

In subsection (2) “public sector provider” means—

a

a probation trust or other public body, or

b

the Secretary of State.