{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-237",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-237.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/237",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "237",
  "heading": "Making of order where offender subject to other order or sentence of detention",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a court makes a detention and training order.\n(2) The court may order that the term of the detention and training order is to take effect on the expiry of any other detention and training order which it imposes on the same occasion.\nThis is subject to section 238(1).\n(3) If the offender—\n(a) is subject to another relevant detention and training order (“the existing order”), and\n(b) has not at any time been released for supervision under the existing order,\nthe court may order that the detention and training order is to take effect on the expiry of the existing order.\nThis is subject to section 238(1).\n(4) If the offender—\n(a) is subject to a relevant sentence of detention (see section 248), and\n(b) has not at any time been released under Chapter 6 of Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (release on licence of fixed-term prisoners),\nthe court may order that the detention and training order is to take effect at the time when the offender would otherwise be released under that Chapter.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) If the offender is subject to a further period of detention imposed—\n(a) under paragraph 3(2)(a) of Schedule 12 (breach of supervision requirement of existing detention and training order),\n(b) under section 104(3)(a) of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, or\n(c) under either of those provisions by virtue section 213 of the Armed Forces Act 2006,\nthe court may order that the detention and training order is to take effect at the end of the further period of detention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 237(5) omitted (28.6.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 159(1), 208(5)(t)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 237-248 modified by 2006 c. 52, s. 213(1)(a) (as substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 25 para. 33(2) (with s. 416(7), Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 237-240 modified by 2006 c. 52, s. 213(2)(a) (as substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 25 para. 33(2) (with s. 416(7), Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 237 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/237",
    "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."
}