Sentencing Act 2020

[F1 Restrictions on imposing electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 6 paras. 45-48 and cross-headings inserted (28.4.2022 for specified purposes, 3.7.2023 in relation to specified areas until 3.1.2025) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 161, 208(4)(r), Sch. 17 para. 12(13); S.I. 2023/705, regs. 2, 3, 4(1), Sch. (with reg. 4(2))

48 (1) Where— E+W

(a) it is proposed to include an electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement in a youth rehabilitation order, but

(b) there is a person (other than the offender) without whose co-operation it will not be practicable to secure the monitoring,

the requirement may not be included in the order without that person’s consent.

(2) A court may not include an electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement in a youth rehabilitation order in respect of an offender unless—

(a) the court has been notified by the Secretary of State that electronic monitoring arrangements are available in the local justice area proposed to be specified in the order (and the notice has not been withdrawn),

(b) the court is satisfied that—

(i) the offender can be fitted with any necessary apparatus under the arrangements currently available, and

(ii) any other necessary provision can be made under those arrangements, and

(c) the court is satisfied that arrangements are generally operational throughout England and Wales (even if not always operational everywhere there) under which the offender’s whereabouts can be electronically monitored.]