Sentencing Act 2020

Amendment by appropriate court

15 (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) a youth rehabilitation order is in force, and

(b) an application for the amendment of the order is made to the appropriate court by—

(i) the offender, or

(ii) the responsible officer.

(2) If the appropriate court is satisfied that the offender proposes to reside, or is residing, in a local justice area (a “new local justice area”) other than the offender’s home local justice area for the time being specified in the order, the court—

(a) must, if the responsible officer made the application under sub-paragraph (1)(b), or

(b) may, in any other case,

amend the youth rehabilitation order to specify the new local justice area as the offender’s home local justice area.

This is subject to paragraph 16.

(3) The appropriate court may by order amend the youth rehabilitation order—

(a) by cancelling any of the youth rehabilitation requirements of the order, or

(b) by replacing any of those requirements with a youth rehabilitation requirement of the same kind which it could include in a youth rehabilitation order if, applying the relevant assumptions, it were now making such an order in respect of the relevant offence.

This is subject to paragraph 17.

(4) In this paragraph—

• “relevant offence” means the offence in respect of which the youth rehabilitation order was made, and

• the “relevant assumptions” are that—

  (a)

  the offender has just been convicted by or before the appropriate court of the relevant offence, and

  (b)

  the offender is the same age as when in fact convicted of that offence.