Part IVU.K.Community orders and reparation orders

Chapter IIIU.K.Community orders available only where offender aged 16 or over

Drug treatment and testing ordersE+W

57 Copies of orders.E+W

(1)Where a drug treatment and testing order is made, the court making the order shall (subject to subsection (3) below) forthwith give copies of the order to [F1an officer of a local probation board] assigned to the court.

(2)Where such an order is amended under section 55(1) above, the court amending the order shall [F2(subject to subsection (3A) below)] forthwith give copies of the order as amended to [F1an officer of a local probation board] so assigned.

(3)Where a drug treatment and testing order is made by a magistrates’ court and another magistrates’ court is responsible for the order (within the meaning given by section 54(7) above) by virtue of being specified in the order in accordance with section 54(8)—

(a)the court making the order shall not give copies of it as mentioned in subsection (1) above but shall forthwith send copies of it to the court responsible for the order; and

(b)that court shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the order is made, give copies of it to [F1an officer of a local probation board] assigned to that court.

[F3(3A)Where—

(a)a magistrates’ court amends a drug treatment and testing order under section 55(1) above; and

(b)the order as amended provides for a magistrates’ court other than that mentioned in paragraph (a) above to be responsible for the order;

the court amending the order shall not give copies of the order as amended as mentioned in subsection (2) above but shall forthwith send copies of it to the court responsible for the order and that court shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the order is amended, give copies to an officer of a local probation board assigned to that court.]

(4)[F1an officer of a local probation board] to whom copies of an order are given under this section shall give a copy to—

(a)the offender;

(b)the treatment provider; and

(c)the responsible officer.