THIRD GROUP OF PARTSDisposals

PART 6Orders relating to conduct

CHAPTER 1Referral orders for offenders aged under 18

Making referral orders

I188Making of referral order: connected offences

1

This section applies where a court makes referral orders in respect of two or more connected offences.

2

The referral orders have the effect of referring the offender to a single youth offender panel.

3

Accordingly, provision made by the orders under section 83(1)(a) and section 86(1)(a) (which relates to the youth offending team and a youth offender panel) must be the same for each referral order.

4

The court may direct that the period specified under section 86(1)(b) in any of the referral orders is to run—

a

concurrently with, or

b

in addition to,

the period specified in another of the referral orders.

5

But a direction under subsection (4) must not result in a total period of more than 12 months.

6

For the purposes of this Chapter, each of the orders mentioned in subsection (1) is associated with each other of those orders.