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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-16/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the responsible officer is of the opinion that the offender has without reasonable excuse breached a community requirement of a suspended sentence order.\n(2) If the offender has been given a warning under this paragraph within the previous 12 months in relation to a breach of any community requirement of the order, the officer must refer the matter to an enforcement officer.\n(3) Otherwise the officer must either—\n(a) give the offender a warning under this paragraph, or\n(b) refer the matter to an enforcement officer.\n(4) A warning under this paragraph must—\n(a) describe the circumstances of the breach,\n(b) state that the breach is unacceptable, and\n(c) inform the offender that if the offender again breaches a requirement of the order within the next 12 months, the offender will be liable to be brought before a court.\n(5) As soon as practicable after giving a warning under this paragraph, the responsible officer must record that fact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 6 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"
    },
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/2",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/schedule/16/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}