Sentencing Act 2020

Requirement

31 (1) In this Code “drug treatment requirement”, in relation to a youth rehabilitation order, means a requirement that the offender must submit, during a period or periods (each, a “treatment period”), to drug rehabilitation treatment.

Such treatment may be resident treatment or non-resident treatment.

(2) In this paragraph—

• “drug rehabilitation treatment”, in relation to an offender, means treatment which is—

  (a)

  by or under the direction of a person having the necessary qualifications or experience, and

  (b)

  with a view to the reduction or elimination of the offender’s dependency on, or propensity to misuse, drugs;

• “resident treatment” means treatment as a resident in a particular institution or place;

• “non-resident treatment” means treatment as a non-resident at a particular institution or place;

• “the treatment director” means the person by or under whose direction the treatment is to be provided.

(3) A youth rehabilitation order which imposes a drug treatment requirement must specify—

(a) the treatment period or treatment periods, and

(b) for each treatment period—

(i) the treatment director;

(ii) if the treatment is to be resident treatment, the institution or place where it is to be provided;

(iii) if it is to be non-resident treatment, the institution or place where, and the intervals at which, it is to be provided;

but must not otherwise specify the nature of the treatment.