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FOURTH GROUP OF PARTSFurther powers relating to sentencing

PART 11Behaviour orders

CHAPTER 3Protection from harassment

360Restraining order: availability

(1)This section applies where a court is dealing with an offender for an offence.

(2)The court may make a restraining order under this section against the offender for the purpose of protecting the victim or victims of the offence, or any other person mentioned in the order, from conduct which—

(a)amounts to harassment, or

(b)will cause a fear of violence.

(3)But the court may make a restraining order under this section only if it does so in addition to dealing with the offender for the offence.