Sentencing Act 2020

16 (1) The community order must specify— U.K.

(a) the locality in Scotland in which the offender resides or will be residing at the relevant time, or

(b) that the offender resides in Northern Ireland or will be residing there at the relevant time.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) has effect in place of section 210 (offender's home local justice area to be specified).

(3) The community order must specify an order as the corresponding order for the purposes of this Schedule.

(4) The corresponding order must be an order that may be made—

(a) in the case of a Scottish community order, by a court in Scotland;

(b) in the case of a Northern Ireland community order, by a court in Northern Ireland.

(5) A Scottish community order which specifies as the corresponding order a community payback order within the meaning of section 227A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 must also specify the appropriate court for the purposes of sections 227A to 227ZK of that Act.

(6) That court—

(a) must be a court of summary jurisdiction having jurisdiction in the locality specified under sub-paragraph (1)(a), and

(b) must, in the case of an offender convicted on indictment, be the sheriff court.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 11 para. 16 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2