{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-193",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-193.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/193",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "193",
  "heading": "Duty of offender to keep in touch with responsible officer etc",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a youth rehabilitation order is in force.\n(2) The offender—\n(a) must keep in touch with the responsible officer in accordance with any instructions the responsible officer may give the offender from time to time, and\n(b) must notify the responsible officer of—\n(i) any name which the offender uses but which is not mentioned in the youth rehabilitation order,\n(ii) each of the offender’s telephone numbers and email addresses (if any), and\n(iii) any change of address.\n(2A) The offender must comply with subsection (2)(b)(i) and (ii) in relation to a name, telephone number or email address as soon as reasonably practicable after the order is made or the person first uses that name or obtains that telephone number or email address.\n(3) An obligation under subsection (2) is enforceable as if it were a youth rehabilitation requirement of the youth rehabilitation order.\n(4) This section applies in relation to youth rehabilitation orders made before (as well as those made after) section 192 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 193(2)(b) substituted (29.6.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 192(3)(a), 255(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 193(2A) inserted (29.6.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 192(3)(b), 255(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 193(3) substituted (29.6.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 192(3)(c), 255(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 193(4) inserted (29.6.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 192(3)(d), 255(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 193 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/section/193",
    "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."
}