{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/schedule-25/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/schedule-25/paragraph-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/4",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/25/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 270 (community punishments: general restrictions etc.) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (6) insert—\n“(6A) The fact that by virtue of any provision of this section—\n(a) a community punishment may be awarded in respect of an offence, or\n(b) particular restrictions on liberty may be imposed by a community punishment,\ndoes not require a court to award such a punishment or to impose those restrictions.”\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 25 para. 26(3) (4) repealed (2.4.2012) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 3 para. 20(3), Sch. 5; S.I. 2012/669, art. 4(d)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 25 para. 26(1)(2) in force at 31.10.2009 by S.I. 2009/1028, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/schedule/25/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:04.639459+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."
}