44 Community service orders renamed community punishment orders.E+W
(1)An order under subsection (1) of section 46 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (community service orders), whenever made, is to be referred to as a community punishment order.
(2)References in any enactment, instrument or document to a community punishment order include (where the context allows) an order under any provision corresponding to that subsection which is repealed by that Act.
(3)Accordingly—
(a)in subsection (2) of that section, for “ “community service order”” there is substituted “ “community punishment order” ”, but
(b)paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 11 to that Act (general transitional provisions) does not apply to that subsection as amended by this.
(4)References in any enactment, instrument or document to a community service order—
(a)are to an order under any provision corresponding to section 46(1) of that Act which is repealed by that Act, and
(b)include (where the context allows) an order under that subsection.
(5)In section 163 of the M1Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (general definitions), in the definition of “community service order”—
(a)for “service” there is substituted “ punishment ”,
(b)for the words from “means” to the first mention of “above” there is substituted “ has the meaning given by section 44 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 ”,
and that definition is moved to follow the definition of “community order”.