Sentencing Act 2020

PART 1 Powers of court in England and Wales to make or amend a youth rehabilitation order where offender resides or proposes to reside in Northern Ireland

Making of youth rehabilitation order where offender will reside in Northern Ireland

1 (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) a youth rehabilitation order is available to a court dealing with an offender, and

(b) the court is satisfied that the offender—

(i) resides in Northern Ireland, or

(ii) if a youth rehabilitation order is made, will reside there when the order takes effect.

(2) The court may make a youth rehabilitation order only if—

(a) it appears to the court that suitable arrangements for the offender’s supervision can be made by—

(i) the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, or

(ii) any other designated body, and

(b) the order will satisfy paragraphs 4 to 6.

Amendment of youth rehabilitation order where offender will reside in Northern Ireland

2 (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) a youth rehabilitation order is in force,

(b) the appropriate court (within the meaning given in paragraph 14 of Schedule 7) is satisfied that the offender—

(i) resides in Northern Ireland, or

(ii) proposes to reside there, and

(c) it appears to the court that suitable arrangements for the offender’s supervision can be made by—

(i) the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, or

(ii) any other designated body.

(2) The power of the appropriate court to amend the order under Part 4 of Schedule 7 (“the amendment power”) includes power to amend the order by requiring—

(a) the order to be complied with in Northern Ireland, and

(b) the offender to be supervised in accordance with the arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c).

(3) But the appropriate court may exercise the amendment power in that way only if the order (as amended) will satisfy paragraphs 4 to 6.