# Sentencing Act 2020, Section 342D: Duration of serious violence reduction orders

Extent: E+W

(1) A serious violence reduction order takes effect on the day it is made, subject to subsections (3) and (4).
(2) A serious violence reduction order must specify the period for which it has effect, which must be a fixed period of not less than 6 months and not more than 2 years.
(3) Subsection (4) applies in relation to a serious violence reduction order if—
(a) the offender has been remanded in or committed to custody by an order of a court, or
(b) a custodial sentence has been imposed on the offender or the offender is serving or otherwise subject to a such a sentence.
(4) The order may provide that it does not take effect until the offender is released from custody or ceases to be subject to a custodial sentence.
(5) Where a court makes a serious violence reduction order and the offender is already subject to such an order, the earlier order ceases to have effect.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/342D (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-342D
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