{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/schedule-2/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/schedule-2/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/53",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, where a court proposes to exercise its powers under this Part of this Schedule, otherwise than on the application of the offender, the court—\n(a) shall summon him to appear before the court; and\n(b) if he does not appear in answer to the summons, may issue a warrant for his arrest;\n. . .\n(2) This paragraph shall not apply to an order cancelling a requirement of a relevant order or reducing the period of any requirement, or substituting a new petty sessions area or a new place for the one specified in a relevant order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 17(1) repealed (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, ss. 119, 120(1), Sch. 8 para. 96(7), Sch.10; S.I. 1998/2327, art.2(1)(aa)(y)(2)(ff)(3)(t)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 (paras. 1 - 18) wholly in force at 1.10.1992 see s. 102(2)(3) and S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/53/schedule/2/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:55.708645+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}