Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

Yn ddilys o 01/04/2009

26 (1) In this Part of this Act “electronic monitoring requirement”, in relation to a youth rehabilitation order, means a requirement for securing the electronic monitoring of the offender's compliance with other requirements imposed by the order during a period specified in the order or determined by the responsible officer in accordance with the order. E+W

(2) Where an electronic monitoring requirement is required to take effect during a period determined by the responsible officer in accordance with the youth rehabilitation order, the responsible officer must, before the beginning of that period, notify—

(a) the offender,

(b) the person responsible for the monitoring, and

(c) any person falling within sub-paragraph (3)(b),

of the time when the period is to begin.

(3) Where—

(a) it is proposed to include an electronic monitoring requirement in a youth rehabilitation order, but

(b) there is a person (other than the offender) without whose co-operation it will not be practicable to secure that the monitoring takes place,

the requirement may not be included in the order without that person's consent.

(4) A youth rehabilitation order which imposes an electronic monitoring requirement must include provision for making a person responsible for the monitoring.

(5) The person who is made responsible for the monitoring must be of a description specified in an order made by the Secretary of State.

(6) A court may not include an electronic monitoring requirement in a youth rehabilitation order unless the court—

(a) has been notified by the Secretary of State that arrangements for electronic monitoring of offenders are available—

(i) in the local justice area proposed to be specified in the order, and

(ii) for each requirement mentioned in the first column of the Table in sub-paragraph (7) which the court proposes to include in the order, in the area in which the relevant place is situated, and

(b) is satisfied that the necessary provision can be made under the arrangements currently available.

(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (6), “relevant place”, in relation to a requirement mentioned in the first column of the following Table which the court proposes to include in the order, means the place mentioned in relation to it in the second column of the Table.

Proposed requirement of youth rehabilitation order	Relevant place
Curfew requirement.	The place which the court proposes to specify in the order for the purposes of that requirement.
Exclusion requirement.	The place (within the meaning of paragraph 15) which the court proposes to specify in the order.
Attendance centre requirement.	The attendance centre which the court proposes to specify in the order.