{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-338",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-338.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/338",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "338",
  "heading": "Carrying out and participating in reviews",
  "text": "(1) A review under section 337 is to be carried out by the chief officer of police of the police force maintained for the police area in which the offender resides or appears to be residing.\n(2) The chief officer, in carrying out a review under section 337, must act in co-operation with the council for the local government area in which the offender resides or appears to be residing; and the council must co-operate in the carrying out of the review.\n(3) The chief officer may invite the participation in the review of any other person or body.\n(4) In this section “local government area” means—\n(a) in relation to England, a district or London borough, the City of London, the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly;\n(b) in relation to Wales, a county or a county borough.\nFor the purposes of this section, the council for the Inner and Middle Temples is the Common Council of the City of London.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 338 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/338",
    "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."
}