{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-296",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-296.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/296",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "296",
  "heading": "Order to specify offender's home local justice area",
  "text": "(1) A suspended sentence order which imposes any community requirement must specify the area which is the offender's home local justice area.\n(2) That area must be the local justice area in which the offender resides or will reside.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 296 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/296",
    "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."
}