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Textual Amendments
9.(1)This paragraph applies where—S
(a)an offender on whom a community payback order has been imposed under section 227A of this Act proposes to change, or has changed, residence to a locality in Northern Ireland (“the new locality”), and
(b)the court is considering varying the order so as to specify the relevant area in which the offender resides or will reside.
(2)The court must not vary the order unless—
(a)the offender has attained the age of 16 years, and
(b)the court is satisfied as mentioned in paragraph 8(2)(b).
(3)If the court considers that a requirement (“the requirement concerned”) imposed by the order cannot be complied with if the offender resides in the new locality, the court must not vary the order so as to specify the relevant area unless it also varies the order so as to—
(a)revoke or discharge the requirement concerned, or
(b)substitute for the requirement concerned another requirement that can be so complied with.
(4)The court must not make a variation under sub-paragraph (3) unless it is satisfied as mentioned in paragraph 8(2)(b) (reading the reference there to the order as a reference to the order as proposed to be varied).]