{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/21",
  "legislation_title": "Offender Management Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Restriction on certain arrangements under section 3",
  "text": "(1) Arrangements under section 3(2) relating to restricted probation provision may only be made with a probation trust or other public body.\n(2) In this section “restricted probation provision” means probation provision which—\n(a) is made for a purpose mentioned in section 2(1)(a) or (b); and\n(b) relates to the giving of assistance to any court in determining the appropriate sentence to pass, or making any other decision, in respect of a person charged with or convicted of an offence.\n(3) The provision described in subsection (2)(b) includes provision which relates to the making of an application by an officer to a court under—\n(a) paragraph 14, 15, 18, 20 or 21 of Schedule 10 to the Sentencing Code (revocation or amendment of community orders), or\n(b) paragraph 22, 25 or 27 of Schedule 16 to that Code (amendment of suspended sentence orders),...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(3) inserted (1.6.2014) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 4 para. 8; S.I. 2014/1287, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(3)(a) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 262(a) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 4(3)(a) inserted (11.5.2026) by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), s. 49(1), Sch. 5 para. 10(a) (with s. 34(4)(5)); S.I. 2026/402, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(3)(b) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 262(b) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 4(3)(c) and word omitted (11.5.2026) by virtue of Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), s. 49(1), Sch. 5 para. 10(b) (with s. 34(4)(5)); S.I. 2026/402, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.4.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/504, art. 4(1)(d)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/547, art. 2(1)(d)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/191, art. 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/21/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:05:40.966141+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}