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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-9/paragraph-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-9/paragraph-35.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/35",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A court may not include an electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement in a relevant order in respect of an offender unless—\n(a) the court has been notified by the Secretary of State that electronic monitoring arrangements are available in the local justice area proposed to be specified in the order (and the notice has not been withdrawn),\n(b) the court is satisfied that—\n(i) the offender can be fitted with any necessary apparatus under the arrangements currently available, and\n(ii) any other necessary provision can be made under those arrangements, and\n(c) the court is satisfied that arrangements are generally operational throughout England and Wales (even if not always operational everywhere there) under which the offender's whereabouts can be electronically monitored.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 paras. 23-35 modified by 2006 c. 52, s. 200(1)(c)(iv) (as substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 25 para. 19 (with s. 416(7), Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 35 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
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      "affecting_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022"
    },
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    {
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    },
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      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision 2003 c. 44, Sch. 19A para. 2",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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