{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-11/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-11/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The court which makes or amends the community order must—\n(a) forthwith provide the offender with a copy of the order as made or amended, and\n(b) provide the home court with—\n(i) a copy of the order as made or amended, and\n(ii) such other documents and information relating to the case as it considers likely to be of assistance to the home court.\n(2) Where the court—\n(a) makes a community order which imposes a requirement specified in column 1 of the table in sub-paragraph (3), or\n(b) amends a community order so as to impose or amend such a requirement,\nit must also forthwith provide the person specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of the table with a copy of so much of the community order or amending order as relates to that requirement.\n(3) The table is—\nThe requirement\nThe person to whom a copy must be provided\nAn exclusion requirement imposed for the purpose (or partly for the purpose) of protecting a person from being approached by the offender\nThe person intended to be protected\nA residence requirement relating to residence in an institution\nThe person in charge of the institution\nA mental health treatment requirement\nThe person specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(iii) of Schedule 9 or the person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(i) or (ii) of that Schedule\nA drug rehabilitation requirement\nThe person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 19(5)(b) or (c) of Schedule 9\nAn alcohol treatment requirement\nThe person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 23(5)(c) or (d) of Schedule 9 or, in the case of practitioner-based treatment, the person specified under paragraph 23(5)(a) of that Schedule\nAn electronic monitoring requirement\nAny person who by virtue of paragraph 31(1) of Schedule 9 will be responsible for the electronic monitoring\nAny person without whose consent the requirement could not be included in the order.\n(4) This paragraph has effect in place of section 212 (provision of copies of relevant orders).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 17 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/2",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/schedule/11/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+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."
}