Community orders and suspended sentence orders
Section 16: Programme requirement
119.Section 16 amends section 202 of the 2003 Act, which makes provision for an offender to be required to participate in an accredited programme as a requirement of a community order or suspended sentence order.
120.Subsection (2) of section 16 removes the provision from the 2003 Act that an offender can only participate in accredited programmes in places approved by the local probation board or local provider of probation services. Subsections (3) and (4) of section 16 make consequential amendments to Schedules 9 and 13 to the 2003 Act, which relate to transfers of community orders and suspended sentence orders to Scotland and Northern Ireland.