{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-360",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-360.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/360",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "360",
  "heading": "Restraining order: availability",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a court is dealing with an offender for an offence.\n(2) The court may make a restraining order under this section against the offender for the purpose of protecting the victim or victims of the offence, or any other person mentioned in the order, from conduct which—\n(a) amounts to harassment, or\n(b) will cause a fear of violence.\n(3) But the court may make a restraining order under this section only if it does so in addition to dealing with the offender for the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 360 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/360",
    "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."
}