Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

Unpaid work requirements

155 Duty to consult on unpaid work requirements

After section 10 of the Offender Management Act 2007 insert—

“10A Duty to consult on unpaid work requirements

(1) Each provider of probation services must, in each calendar year, consult the prescribed persons about the work to be performed by persons who—

(a) are subject to unpaid work requirements, and

(b) are supervised by that provider.

(2) In this section “prescribed person” means a person, or a person of a description, prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(3) In this section “unpaid work requirement” means an unpaid work requirement as defined by—

(a) paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 6 to the Sentencing Code (youth rehabilitation orders),

(b) paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 9 to the Sentencing Code (community orders and suspended sentence orders), or

(c) paragraph 3A(1) of Schedule A1 to the Children Act 1989 (enforcement orders).

(4) For the purposes of this section a person is supervised by a provider of probation services if an officer of that provider has functions relating to the person’s compliance with an unpaid work requirement.”