Explanatory note

This Order provides for the courts listed in Article 2(2) in Liverpool and Salford to make provision for reviews of community orders either when making or amending a community order. Article 3 makes provision in relation to the timing of reviews, and allows among other things, the provision of a report on the offender’s progress to be provided by the responsible officer to the court before each review. Article 4 makes provision in relation to the court’s power to amend the community order at a review hearing. It also includes provision enabling a review to be held without a hearing.