{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-6/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-6/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Code “drug treatment requirement”, in relation to a youth rehabilitation order, means a requirement that the offender must submit, during a period or periods (each, a “treatment period”), to drug rehabilitation treatment.\nSuch treatment may be resident treatment or non-resident treatment.\n(2) In this paragraph—\n“drug rehabilitation treatment”, in relation to an offender, means treatment which is—\n(a)by or under the direction of a person having the necessary qualifications or experience, and\n(b)with a view to the reduction or elimination of the offender's dependency on, or propensity to misuse, drugs;\n“resident treatment” means treatment as a resident in a particular institution or place;\n“non-resident treatment” means treatment as a non-resident at a particular institution or place;\n“the treatment director” means the person by or under whose direction the treatment is to be provided.\n(3) A youth rehabilitation order which imposes a drug treatment requirement must specify—\n(a) the treatment period or treatment periods, and\n(b) for each treatment period—\n(i) the treatment director;\n(ii) if the treatment is to be resident treatment, the institution or place where it is to be provided;\n(iii) if it is to be non-resident treatment, the institution or place where, and the intervals at which, it is to be provided;\nbut must not otherwise specify the nature of the treatment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 31 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/schedule/6/paragraph/31",
    "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."
}