Section 298 Provision of copies of order and related documentsI1C1
This section applies on the making by a court of a suspended sentence order which imposes one or more community requirements.
The court must forthwith provide copies of the order—
to the offender,
to the responsible officer,
to an officer of a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider who is acting at the court, and
if the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, to a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider and is operating in that area.
If the order imposes any requirement specified in column 1 of the following table the court must also forthwith provide the person specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 with a copy of so much of the order as relates to the requirement.
| The requirement | The person to whom a copy must be provided |
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| An exclusion requirement imposed for the purpose (or partly for the purpose) of protecting a person from being approached by the offender. | The person intended to be protected |
| A residence requirement relating to residence in an institution. | The person in charge of the institution |
| A mental health treatment requirement. | The person specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(iii) of Schedule 9 or the person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 16(3)(b)(i) or (ii) of that Schedule |
| A drug rehabilitation requirement | The person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 19(5)(b) or (c) of Schedule 9 |
| An alcohol treatment requirement | The person in charge of the institution or place specified under paragraph 23(5)(c) or (d) of Schedule 9 or, in the case of practitioner-based treatment, the person specified under paragraph 23(5)(a) of that Schedule |
| An electronic monitoring requirement | Any person who by virtue of paragraph 31(1) of Schedule 9 will be responsible for the electronic monitoring |
| Any person without whose consent the requirement could not be included in the order. |
If the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, it must provide the magistrates' court acting in that area with—
a copy of the order, and
such documents and information relating to the case as it considers likely to be of assistance to a court acting in that area in the exercise of its functions in relation to the order.
In subsection (2) “public sector provider” means—
a probation trust or other public body, or
the Secretary of State.
Annotations
Modifications
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S. 298 modified by 2006 c. 52, s. 200(1)(c)(iii) (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)
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S. 298(4) excluded by 2006 s. 52, ss. 200, 202 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 25 paras. 19, 20(c) (with s. 416(7), Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)
Commencement
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S. 298 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2
Notes on Chapter 5
Modifications
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Pt. 10 Ch. 5 applied (with modifications) by 2006 s. 52, ss. 200-207, Sch. 7 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 25 paras. 19-26 (with s. 416(7), Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)