{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-221",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-221.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "section/221",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "221",
  "heading": "Provision of attendance centres",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may continue to provide attendance centres.\n(2) In this Part “attendance centre” means a place at which offenders ... may be required to attend and be given under supervision appropriate occupation or instruction in pursuance of—\n(a) attendance centre requirements of relevant orders, or\n(aa) attendance centre requirements of youth rehabilitation orders, within the meaning given by section 173 of the Sentencing Code,\n(b) attendance centre orders under section 60 of the PCC(S)A 2000,\n(c) default orders under section 300 of this Act, or\n(d) youth default orders under section 39 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.\n(3) For the purpose of providing attendance centres, the Secretary of State may make arrangements with any local authority or local policing body for the use of premises of that authority or body.\n(4) In this section “relevant order” means—\n(a) an order under section 177(1) (community order) or 189(1) (suspended sentence order);\n(b) a relevant order within the meaning given by section 397 of the Sentencing Code, made in respect of an offence of which the offender was convicted before the day on which paragraph 5 of Schedule 13 to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 came into force.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 221(2) omitted (28.6.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 13 para. 5(2); S.I. 2022/520, reg. 5(q) (as amended by S.I. 2022/680, reg. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 221(2)(aa) inserted (30.11.2009) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 6, 153, Sch. 4 para. 92(b) (with Sch. 27 paras. 1, 5); S.I. 2009/3074, art. 2(p)(xiv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 221(2)(aa) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 217(a) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 221(2)(b) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 217(b) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 221(2)(c)(d) inserted (14.7.2008) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 148, 153, Sch. 26 para. 2(2); S.I. 2008/1586, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 48(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 221(3) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 313(a); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 221(3) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 313(b); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 221(4) inserted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 13 para. 5(3); S.I. 2022/520, reg. 5(q) (as amended by S.I. 2022/680, reg. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 221 wholly in force at 4.4.2005; s. 221 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 336(3); s. 221 in force for certain purposes at 26.1.2004 by S.I. 2003/3282, art. 2, Sch.; s. 221 in force in so far as not already in force at 4.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/950, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 17 (subject to art. 2(2), Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/section/221",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:40.404644+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."
}