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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-16/paragraph-17",
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  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
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  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where the offender—\n(a) is required by a treatment requirement of a suspended sentence order to submit to treatment, and\n(b) has refused to undergo any surgical, electrical or other treatment.\n(2) The offender is not to be treated for the purposes of paragraph 10(1)(b) or 12(2)(b) as having breached that requirement on the ground only of that refusal if, in the opinion of the court, the refusal was reasonable having regard to all the circumstances.\n(3) In this paragraph, “treatment requirement” means—\n(a) a mental health treatment requirement,\n(b) a drug rehabilitation requirement, or\n(c) an alcohol treatment requirement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 17 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
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      "type": "omitted by 2020 c. 17, Sch. 10 para. 78A(a) (as inserted)",
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      "affecting_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022"
    },
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      "type": "words omitted by 2020 c. 17, Sch. 10 para. 78A(b) (as inserted)",
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      "affecting_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022"
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      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
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    "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."
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