Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014

6 Supervision of certain young offenders after detention and training order

(1) Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (custodial sentences: detention and custody of young offenders) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 101(13) (term of detention and training order where consecutive or concurrent orders imposed), after “105” insert “and 106B”.

(3) In section 103 (period of supervision of offender subject to detention and training order)—

(a) in subsection (2), at the beginning insert “Subject to subsection (2A),”, and

(b) after subsection (2) insert—

“(2A) An order under subsection (2) may not include provision about cases in which—

(a) the offender is aged 18 or over at the half-way point of the term of the detention and training order, and

(b) the order was imposed in respect of an offence committed on or after the day on which section 6(4) of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 came into force.”

(4) After section 106A insert—

“106B Further supervision after end of term of detention and training order

(1) This section applies where a detention and training order is made in respect of an offender if—

(a) the offender is aged 18 or over at the half-way point of the term of the order,

(b) the term of the order is less than 24 months, and

(c) the order was imposed in respect of an offence committed on or after the day on which section 6(4) of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 came into force.

(2) The following provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (which relate to supervision after end of sentence) apply as they apply in cases described in section 256AA(1) of that Act—

(a) sections 256AA (2) to (11), 256AB and 256AC,

(b) sections 256D and 256E, and

(c) Schedule 19A,

but with the following modifications.

(3) “The supervision period”, in relation to the offender, is the period which—

(a) begins on the expiry of the term of the detention and training order, and

(b) ends on the expiry of the period of 12 months beginning immediately after the half-way point of the term of the order.

(4) “The supervisor”, in relation to the offender, must be—

(a) an officer of a provider of probation services, or

(b) a member of the youth offending team established by the local authority in whose area the offender resides for the time being.

(5) The power under section 256AB(4) includes power to make provision about the supervision requirements that may be imposed under section 256AA as applied by this section and to amend this Act.

(6) Subsection (7) applies where the term of the detention and training order is determined by section 101(13) (consecutive and concurrent orders).

(7) The offender is subject to supervision under section 256AA (as applied by this section) if that section (as applied) so requires in respect of one or more of the consecutive or concurrent orders.”