185 Youth rehabilitation order: availability of particular requirements
Extended activity requirement
(1) An extended activity requirement is not available for a youth rehabilitation order other than a youth rehabilitation order with intensive supervision and surveillance.
Unpaid work requirement
(2) An unpaid work requirement is not available for a youth rehabilitation order in respect of an offence unless the offender is aged 16 or 17 when convicted of the offence.
Fostering requirement
(3) A fostering requirement is not available for a youth rehabilitation order other than a youth rehabilitation order with fostering.
Electronic monitoring requirement requirements
(4) An electronic monitoring requirement electronic compliance monitoring requirement is not available for a youth rehabilitation order unless the order imposes at least one other youth rehabilitation requirement.
(5) An electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement is not available for a youth rehabilitation order in respect of an offence unless the offender was convicted of the offence on or after the day on which paragraph 6 of Schedule 17 to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 first came into force to any extent (ignoring, for these purposes, the coming into force of Part 2 of that Schedule for the purposes of making regulations).
186 Youth rehabilitation order: exercise of power to impose particular requirements
(1) This section applies where a court makes a youth rehabilitation order in respect of an offence.
Restrictions and obligations relating to imposing particular requirements
(2) The power to impose a particular youth rehabilitation requirement is subject to the provisions of the Part of Schedule 6 relating to requirements of that kind (see column 2 of the table in section 174).
Suitability
(3) The particular youth rehabilitation requirement or combination of youth rehabilitation requirements imposed by the order must, in the opinion of the court, be the most suitable for the offender.
In the case of a youth rehabilitation order with intensive supervision and surveillance, this is subject to section 175 (by virtue of which the order must impose certain requirements).
(4) The pre-sentence report requirements (see section 30) apply to the court in relation to forming any opinion on whether a particular youth rehabilitation requirement or combination of youth rehabilitation requirements is suitable for the offender.
(5) In forming its opinion for the purposes of subsection (3) on which requirement or combination of requirements is the most suitable for the offender, the court may take into account any information about the offender which is before it.
Restrictions on liberty to be commensurate with seriousness
(6) The restrictions on liberty imposed by the order must be such as are in the opinion of the court commensurate with the seriousness of—
(a) the offence, or
(b) the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it.
In the case of a youth rehabilitation order with intensive supervision and surveillance, this is subject to section 175 (by virtue of which the order must impose certain requirements).
(7) In forming its opinion for the purposes of subsection (6), the court must take into account all the information that is available to it about the circumstances of the offence, or of it and the associated offence or offences, including any aggravating or mitigating factors.
(8) The pre-sentence report requirements (see section 30) apply to the court in relation to forming that opinion.
(9) The fact that, by virtue of subsection (6), particular restrictions on liberty may be imposed by a youth rehabilitation order does not require the court to impose those restrictions.
Compatibility with other requirements and other matters
(10) If the order imposes two or more requirements, the court must, before making the order, consider whether, in the circumstances of the case, the requirements are compatible with each other.
This is subject to sections 175 and 176 and paragraphs 19(3) and 21 of Schedule 6 (certain types of youth rehabilitation order to contain certain requirements).
(11) The court must ensure, as far as practicable, that any requirement imposed by the order is such as to avoid—
(a) any conflict with the offender's religious beliefs,
(b) any interference with the times, if any, at which the offender normally works or attends school or any other educational establishment, and
(c) any conflict with the requirements of any other court order to which the offender may be subject,
and satisfies any additional restrictions that the Secretary of State may specify in regulations.
(12) Regulations under subsection (11) are subject to the negative resolution procedure.
187 Youth rehabilitation order to specify end date
(1) A youth rehabilitation order must specify a date (the “end date”) by which all the requirements in it must have been complied with.
(2) The end date must be—
(a) not more than 3 years, and
(b) in the case of a youth rehabilitation order with intensive supervision and surveillance, not less than 6 months,
after the date on which the order takes effect.
(3) If a youth rehabilitation order imposes two or more different youth rehabilitation requirements—
(a) the order may also specify, for each of the requirements, a date by which the requirement must have been complied with;
(b) if it does so, the last of those dates must be the same as the end date.
188 Youth rehabilitation order to specify offender's home local justice area
(1) A youth rehabilitation order must specify which local justice area is the offender's home local justice area.
(2) The area specified must be the local justice area in which the offender resides or will reside.
189 Power for Crown Court to direct magistrates' court supervision
(1) This section applies where the Crown Court makes a youth rehabilitation order otherwise than on appeal from a magistrates' court.
(2) The Crown Court may include a direction that the order is to be subject to magistrates' court supervision.
For the effect of such a direction, see Schedule 7 (breach, revocation or amendment of youth rehabilitation order).
190 Provision of copies of youth rehabilitation order and related documents
(1) This section applies when a court makes a youth rehabilitation order.
(2) The court must forthwith provide copies of the order—
(a) to the offender,
(b) if the offender is aged under 14, to the offender's parent or guardian,
(c) to a member of a youth offending team assigned to the court or to an officer who is acting at the court and is an officer of a provider of probation services, and
(d) if the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, to a provider of probation services operating in that area.
(3) If the order imposes a 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.
Requirement | Person to whom copy of requirement is to be given
An activity requirement which comprises or includes a specified place obligation | The person in charge of each place specified under paragraph 3(1)(b) of Schedule 6
An activity requirement which comprises or includes a specified activities obligation | The person in charge of each activity specified under paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 6
An activity requirement which comprises or includes a specified residential exercise obligation | The person in charge of each place or activity specified under paragraph 5(1)(b) of Schedule 6
An attendance centre requirement | The officer in charge of the attendance centre specified under paragraph 14(2)(a) of Schedule 6
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 requiring residence with an individual | The individual specified under paragraph 22(2)(b) of Schedule 6
A place of residence requirement (within the meaning of paragraph 22 of Schedule 6) relating to residence in an institution | The person in charge of the institution
A local authority residence requirement | The local authority specified under paragraph 24(3)(b) of Schedule 6
A mental health treatment requirement | The person in charge of the institution or place specified under sub-paragraph (3)(b)(i) or (ii) of paragraph 28 of Schedule 6, or the person specified under sub-paragraph (3)(b)(iii) of that paragraph
A drug treatment requirement | The treatment director specified under paragraph 31(3)(b)(i) of Schedule 6
A drug testing requirement | The treatment director specified under paragraph 31(3)(b)(i) of Schedule 6
An intoxicating substance treatment requirement | The treatment director specified under paragraph 36(3)(b)(i) of Schedule 6
An education requirement | The relevant authority specified under paragraph 39(2)(a) of Schedule 6
An electronic monitoring requirement An electronic compliance monitoring requirement | Any person who by virtue of paragraph 42(1) of Schedule 6 will be responsible for the electronic monitoring
Any person without whose consent the requirement could not be included in the order.
An electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement | Any person who by virtue of paragraph 46 of Schedule 6 will be responsible for the electronic monitoring Any person without whose consent the requirement could not be included in the order.
(4) If the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, it must provide the magistrates' court acting in the offender's home local justice area with—
(a) a copy of the order, and
(b) 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.
(1) For the purposes of this Chapter, “the responsible officer”, in relation to an offender to whom a youth rehabilitation order relates, means the person identified in subsection ... (3) or (4).
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) If the only youth rehabilitation requirement imposed by the order is an attendance centre requirement, the responsible officer is the officer in charge of the attendance centre specified in the order.
(4) In any other case the responsible officer is the qualifying officer who, as respects the offender, is for the time being responsible for discharging the functions conferred by this Chapter on the responsible officer.
(5) In subsection (4) “qualifying officer”, means—
(a) a member of a youth offending team established by a local authority specified in the order for the purposes of this section, or
(b) an officer of a provider of probation services acting in the offender's home local justice area.
(1) This section applies where a youth rehabilitation order is in force.
Functions of the responsible officer
(2) The responsible officer must—
(a) make any arrangements that are necessary in connection with the requirements imposed by the order,
(b) promote the offender's compliance with those requirements, and
(c) where appropriate, take steps to enforce those requirements.
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Exercise of functions by responsible officer
(4) In giving instructions to the offender in pursuance of the order, the responsible officer must ensure, as far as practicable, that any instruction is such as to avoid—
(a) any conflict with the offender's religious beliefs,
(b) any interference with the times, if any, at which the offender normally works or attends school or any other educational establishment, and
(c) any conflict with the requirements of any other court order to which the offender may be subject,
and satisfies any additional restrictions that the Secretary of State may specify in regulations.
(5) Regulations under subsection (4) are subject to the negative resolution procedure.
193 Duty of offender to keep in touch with responsible officer etc
(1) This section applies where a youth rehabilitation order is in force.
(2) The offender—
(a) must keep in touch with the responsible officer in accordance with any instructions the responsible officer may give the offender from time to time, and
(b) must notify the responsible officer of—
(i) any name which the offender uses but which is not mentioned in the youth rehabilitation order,
(ii) each of the offender’s telephone numbers and email addresses (if any), and
(iii) any change of address.
(2A) The offender must comply with subsection (2)(b)(i) and (ii) in relation to a name, telephone number or email address as soon as reasonably practicable after the order is made or the person first uses that name or obtains that telephone number or email address.
(3) An obligation under subsection (2) is enforceable as if it were a youth rehabilitation requirement of the youth rehabilitation order.
(4) This section applies in relation to youth rehabilitation orders made before (as well as those made after) section 192 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 comes into force.
194 Power to provide for court review of youth rehabilitation orders
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations—
(a) enable or require a court making a youth rehabilitation order to provide for the order to be reviewed periodically by that or another court,
(b) enable a court to amend a youth rehabilitation order so as to include or remove a provision for review by a court, and
(c) make provision as to the timing and conduct of reviews and as to the powers of the court on a review.
(2) Regulations under this section may, in particular, make provision in relation to youth rehabilitation orders corresponding to any provision made by sections 293 to 295 in relation to suspended sentence orders.
(3) Regulations under this section may repeal or amend any provision of this Chapter.
(4) Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.
195 Breach, revocation or amendment of youth rehabilitation order
Schedule 7 makes provision about—
(a) failures to comply with the requirements of youth rehabilitation orders, and
(b) revocation and amendment of youth rehabilitation orders.
In this Chapter, except where the contrary intention appears—
“end date”, in relation to a youth rehabilitation order, means the date for the time being specified in the order under—
section 187 (youth rehabilitation order to specify end date),
paragraph 10(4) of Schedule 7 (power to substitute later end date on breach), or
paragraph 18(1) of that Schedule (extension of order);
“home local justice area”, in relation to a youth rehabilitation order, means the local justice area for the time being specified in the order under—
section 188, or
paragraph 15(2) of Schedule 7;
“the responsible officer”, in relation to an offender to whom a youth rehabilitation order relates, has the meaning given by section 191;
“youth rehabilitation requirement” has the meaning given by section 173.
(1) A youth rehabilitation order takes effect at the beginning of the day on which it is made.
(2) But a court making a youth rehabilitation order may order that it is to take effect instead on a later date (and see, in particular, section 181(1)).
(3) A youth rehabilitation order is in force for the period—
(a) beginning when it takes effect, and
(b) ending—
(i) with the end date, or
(ii) if later, when the offender has completed any unpaid work requirement imposed by the order.
(4) But a youth rehabilitation order ceases to be in force when it is revoked.
(5) An unpaid work requirement is completed when the offender has worked under it for the number of hours specified in the order.
(1) This section applies where an electronic monitoring requirement was imposed by a youth rehabilitation order in respect of an offence of which the offender was convicted before the day on which paragraph 4 of Schedule 17 to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 first came into force to any extent (ignoring, for these purposes, the coming into force of Part 2 of that Schedule for the purposes of making regulations).
(2) In this section “electronic monitoring requirement” has the meaning given by paragraph 41 of Schedule 6 as it had effect before the day mentioned in subsection (1).
(3) The electronic monitoring requirement is not affected by the renaming of electronic monitoring requirements as electronic compliance monitoring requirements by that Act.
(4) This Chapter applies in relation to the youth rehabilitation order as if any reference to an electronic compliance monitoring requirement were to an electronic monitoring requirement.
(1) This Chapter has effect in relation to the Isles of Scilly with such exceptions, adaptations and modifications as the Secretary of State may by regulations specify.
(2) Regulations under this section are subject to the negative resolution procedure.
(1) In this Code “community order” means an order imposing one or more community order requirements.
(2) The community order requirements are listed in column 1 of the community order requirements table (see section 201).
(3) Provision about each requirement is made by the Part of Schedule 9 mentioned in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.
The community order requirements table referred to in sections 200, 206 and 208 is—
Requirement | Part of Schedule 9 relating to requirement | Restrictions on availability
unpaid work requirement | Part 1
probation requirement | Part 2
programme requirement | Part 3
prohibited activity requirement | Part 4
driving prohibition requirement | Part 4A | section 207(A1)
public event attendance prohibition requirement | Part 4B | section 207(B1)
drinking establishment entry prohibition requirement | Part 4C | section 207(C1)
curfew requirement | Part 5
exclusion requirement | Part 6
residence requirement | Part 7
foreign travel prohibition requirement | Part 8
mental health treatment requirement | Part 9
drug rehabilitation requirement | Part 10
drug testing requirement | Part 10A | section 207(3A)
alcohol treatment requirement | Part 11
alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement | Part 12 | section 207(1) or (2)
attendance centre requirement | Part 13 | section 207(3)
electronic compliance monitoring requirement | Part 14 | section 207(4)
electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement | Part 14
(1) A community order is available to a court by or before which an offender is convicted of an offence if—
(a) the offender is aged 18 or over when convicted, and
(b) the offence is punishable with imprisonment by that court.
(2) Subsection (1) is subject to—
(a) subsection (3),
(b) section 203 (restriction on making both community order and suspended sentence order), and
(c) section 37(8) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (community order not to be made in combination with hospital order or guardianship order in respect of same offence).
(3) A community order is not available in respect of an offence in relation to which a mandatory sentence requirement applies (see section 399).
But this is subject to section 74 and Chapter 4 of Part 12 (reduction of sentence for assistance to prosecution).
203 Restriction on making both community order and suspended sentence order
A court may not make a community order in respect of an offence if it makes a suspended sentence order in respect of—
(a) the offence,
(b) any other offence of which the offender is convicted by or before it, or
(c) any other offence for which it deals with the offender.
204 Exercise of power to impose community order: general considerations
(1) This section applies where a community order is available.
(2) The court must not make a community order unless it is of the opinion that—
(a) the offence, or
(b) the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it,
was serious enough to warrant the making of such an order.
(3) In forming its opinion for the purposes of subsection (2), the court must take into account all the information that is available to it about the circumstances of the offence, or of it and the associated offence or offences, including any aggravating or mitigating factors.
(4) The pre-sentence report requirements (see section 30) apply to the court in relation to forming that opinion.
(5) The fact that, by virtue of subsection (2), the court may make a community order does not require it to do so.
(1) In determining the restrictions on liberty to be imposed by a community order in respect of an offence, the court may have regard to any period for which the offender has been remanded in custody in connection with—
(a) the offence, or
(b) any other offence the charge for which was founded on the same facts or evidence.
(2) For this purpose, a person is remanded in custody if—
(a) remanded in or committed to custody by order of a court,
(b) remanded to youth detention accommodation (see subsection (3)), or
(c) remanded, admitted or removed to hospital under section 35, 36, 38 or 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
(3) The reference in subsection (2)(b) to being remanded to youth detention accommodation—
(a) has the same meaning as in Chapter 3 of Part 3 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (remands of children otherwise than on bail): see, in particular, section 91 of that Act, but
(b) also includes a reference to being remanded or committed before 3 December 2012 to local authority accommodation under section 23 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 and—
(i) kept in secure accommodation (within the meaning of that section), or
(ii) detained in a secure training centre pursuant to arrangements under subsection (7A) of that section.
(1) A court may not make a community order which imposes a community order requirement that is not an available requirement.
(2) A community order requirement is an available requirement unless a provision mentioned in column 3 of the entry for that requirement in the community order requirements table (see section 201) provides otherwise.
207 Community order: availability of particular requirements
Driving prohibition requirement
(A1) A driving prohibition requirement is not an available requirement if the offence was committed before the day on which section 14(4)(a) of the Sentencing Act 2026 came into force.
Public event attendance prohibition requirement
(B1) A public event attendance prohibition requirement is not an available requirement if the offence was committed before the day on which section 15(3) of the Sentencing Act 2026 came into force.
Drinking establishment entry prohibition requirement
(C1) A drinking establishment entry prohibition requirement is not an available requirement if the offence was committed before the day on which section 16(3) of the Sentencing Act 2026 came into force.
Alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement
(1) An alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement is not an available requirement unless regulations are in force under paragraph 25(7)(c) of Schedule 9 (prescribed arrangements for monitoring).
(2) An alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement imposing a requirement within paragraph 25(1)(a)(ii) of Schedule 9 (alcohol level to be kept below specified level) is not an available requirement unless regulations are in force under 25(7)(b) of that Schedule (prescribed alcohol level).
Attendance centre requirement
(3) An attendance centre requirement is not an available requirement unless —
(a) the offender was convicted of the offence before the day on which section 152 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 came into force, and
(b) the offender was aged under 25 when convicted of the offence.
Drug testing requirement
(3A) A drug testing requirement is not an available requirement if the offender was convicted of the offence before the day on which section 154 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 came into force.
Electronic compliance monitoring requirement
(4) An electronic compliance monitoring requirement is not an available requirement in relation to a community order unless the community order imposes at least one other available requirement, other than—
(a) an alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement;
(b) an electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement.
Day on which offence committed
(5) Where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of 2 or more days, or at some time during a period of 2 or more days, it must be taken for the purposes of this section to have been committed on the last of those days.
208 Community order: exercise of power to impose particular requirements
(1) This section applies where a court makes a community order in respect of an offence.
Restrictions and obligations relating to imposing particular requirements
(2) The power to impose a particular community order requirement is subject to the provisions of the Part of Schedule 9 relating to requirements of that kind (see column 2 of the table in section 201).
Suitability of requirements
(3) The particular community order requirement or community order requirements imposed by the order must, in the opinion of the court, be the most suitable for the offender.
This is subject to subsection (10).
(4) The pre-sentence report requirements (see section 30) apply to the court in relation to forming any opinion on whether a particular requirement or combination of requirements is suitable for the offender.
(5) In forming its opinion for the purposes of subsection (3) on which requirement or combination of requirements is most suitable for the offender, the court may take into account any information about the offender which is before it.
Considerations of seriousness and punishment etc
(6) The restrictions on liberty imposed by the order must be such as are in the opinion of the court commensurate with the seriousness of—
(a) the offence, or
(b) the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it.
This is subject to subsection (10).
(7) In forming its opinion for the purposes of subsection (6), the court must take into account all the information that is available to it about the circumstances of the offence, or of it and the associated offence or offences, including any aggravating or mitigating factors.
(8) The pre-sentence report requirements (see section 30) apply to the court in relation to forming that opinion.
(9) The fact that, by virtue of subsection (6), particular restrictions on liberty may be imposed by a community order does not require the court to impose those restrictions.
(10) The order must include at least one community order requirement imposed for the purpose of punishment.
(11) Subsection (10) does not apply where—
(a) the court also imposes a fine, or
(b) there are exceptional circumstances relating to the offence or to the offender which—
(i) would make it unjust in all the circumstances for the court to impose a requirement for the purpose of punishment in the particular case, and
(ii) would make it unjust in all the circumstances for the court to impose a fine for the offence concerned.
Compatibility with other matters
(12) If the order imposes two or more different community order requirements, the court must, before making the order, consider whether, in the circumstances of the case, the requirements are compatible with each other.
(13) The court must ensure, so far as practicable, that any community order requirement imposed by the order is such as to avoid—
(a) any conflict with the offender's religious beliefs,
(b) any conflict with the requirements of any other court order to which the offender may be subject, and
(c) any interference with the times, if any, at which the offender normally—
(i) works, or
(ii) attends any educational establishment,
and satisfies any additional restrictions that the Secretary of State may specify in regulations.
(14) Regulations under subsection (13) are subject to the negative resolution procedure.
(1) A community order must specify a date (the “end date”) by which all the requirements in it must have been complied with.
(2) The end date must not be more than 3 years after the date of the order.
(3) If a community order imposes two or more different community order requirements—
(a) the order may also specify, for each of the requirements, a date by which the requirement must have been complied with;
(b) if it does so, the last of those dates must be the same as the end date.
(4) Section 220 sets out the effect of the end date.
210 Community order to specify offender's home local justice area
(1) A community order must specify which local justice area is the offender's home local justice area.
(2) The area specified must be the local justice area in which the offender resides or will reside.
211 Power for Crown Court to direct magistrates' court supervision
(1) Where the Crown Court makes a community order, it may include a direction that the order is to be subject to magistrates' court supervision.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a community order that qualifies for special procedures for the purposes of section 217A.
212 Provision of copies of community order and related documents
(1) This section applies when a court makes a community order.
(2) The court must forthwith provide copies of the order—
(a) to the offender,
(b) to the responsible officer,
(c) to an officer of a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider who is acting at the court, and
(d) 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.
(3) 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
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.
(4) 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) a copy of the order, and
(b) 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.
(5) In subsection (2) “public sector provider” means—
(a) a probation trust or other public body, or
(b) the Secretary of State.
(1) For the purposes of this Chapter, “the responsible officer”, in relation to an offender to whom a community order relates, means the person who is for the time being responsible for discharging the functions conferred by this Code on the responsible officer in accordance with arrangements made by the Secretary of State.
(2) The responsible officer must be—
(a) an officer of a provider of probation services, or
(b) a person responsible for monitoring the offender in accordance with an electronic monitoring requirement imposed by the community order.
(1) This section applies where a community order is in force.
Functions of the responsible officer
(2) The responsible officer must—
(a) make any arrangements that are necessary in connection with the requirements imposed by the order, and
(b) promote the offender's compliance with those requirements.
(3) This is subject to paragraph 16(6) of Schedule 9 (in-patient treatment under mental health treatment requirement).
Exercise of functions by responsible officer
(4) The responsible officer must ensure, as far as practicable, that any instruction given by the responsible officer is such as to avoid—
(a) any conflict with the offender's religious beliefs,
(b) any conflict with the requirements of any other court order to which the offender may be subject, and
(c) any interference with the times, if any, at which the offender normally—
(i) works, or
(ii) attends any educational establishment,
and satisfies any additional restrictions that the Secretary of State may specify in regulations.
(5) Regulations under subsection (4) are subject to the negative resolution procedure.
215 Duty of offender to keep in touch with responsible officer etc
(1) This section applies where a community order is in force.
(2) In the case of any community order (whenever the offender was convicted), the offender—
(a) must keep in touch with the responsible officer in accordance with any instructions the responsible officer may give the offender from time to time, and
(b) must notify the responsible officer of—
(i) any name which the offender uses but which is not mentioned in the community order, and
(ii) each of the offender’s telephone numbers and email addresses (if any).
(2ZA) The offender must comply with subsection (2)(b) in relation to a name, telephone number or email address as soon as reasonably practicable after the order is made or the person first uses that name or obtains that telephone number or email address.
(3) An obligation under this section is enforceable as if it were a community order requirement of the community order.
(4) The obligations under subsection (2) apply in relation to community orders made before (as well as those made after) section 192 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 comes into force.
216 Duty of offender to obtain permission before changing residence
(1) This section applies where a community order—
(a) is in force, and
(b) does not include a residence requirement imposed under paragraph 13 of Schedule 9.
(2) The offender must not change residence except with permission given in accordance with this section by—
(a) the responsible officer, or
(b) a court.
(3) This obligation has effect as if it were a community order requirement of the community order.
(4) The appropriate court may, on an application made by the offender, give permission in a case in which the responsible officer has refused.
For this purpose, “appropriate court” has the same meaning as in Schedule 10 (see paragraph 1 of that Schedule).
(5) A court may also give permission in any proceedings before it under Schedule 10 (breach or amendment of order etc).
(6) The grounds on which the responsible officer or court may refuse an application for permission are that, in the opinion of the officer or court, the change in residence—
(a) is likely to prevent the offender complying with a requirement imposed by the community order, or
(b) would hinder the offender's rehabilitation.
(7) The responsible officer must refuse an application for permission if—
(a) the offender's present residence is in England or Wales, and
(b) the offender's proposed residence is outside England and Wales.
(8) For cases in which a community order has to be amended because of permission given under this section, see paragraph 16 of Schedule 10 (amendment to reflect change in local justice area).
217 Power to provide for court review of community orders
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations—
(a) enable or require a court making a community order to provide for the community order to be reviewed periodically by that or another court,
(b) enable a court to amend a community order so as to include or remove a provision for review by a court, and
(c) make provision as to the timing and conduct of reviews and as to the powers of the court on a review.
(2) Regulations under this section may, in particular, make provision in relation to community orders corresponding to any provision made by sections 293 to 295 in relation to suspended sentence orders.
(2A) Regulations under this section may not make provision in respect of community orders which for the purposes of section 217A qualify for special procedures.
(3) Regulations under this section may repeal or amend any provision of this Chapter.
(4) Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.
217A Review of community order qualifying for special procedures
(1) A community order that—
(a) imposes one or more community order requirements, and
(b) qualifies for special procedures for the purposes of this section,
may make provision for the order to be reviewed periodically (“provision for review”).
(2) Where a community order contains provision for review under this section, it must—
(a) specify the intervals at which the order is to be reviewed,
(b) provide for each review to be made, subject to section 217B, at a hearing held for the purpose by the responsible court (a “review hearing”),
(c) require the offender to attend each review hearing, and
(d) provide for a report by an officer of a provider of probation services on the offender’s progress in complying with the community order requirements of the order (a “progress report”) to be made to the responsible court before each review.
(3) In this section “the responsible court”, in relation to a community order, means the court by which the order is made.
(4) For more about community orders that qualify for special procedures, see section 395A.
(1) This section applies where a review hearing is held on a review of a community order by virtue of section 217A.
(2) The court may, after considering the progress report, amend—
(a) the community order requirements of the order, or
(b) any provision of the order which relates to those requirements.
(3) But the court—
(a) may not amend the community order requirements of the order so as to impose a requirement of a different kind unless the offender expresses willingness to comply with that requirement,
(b) may not amend—
(i) a mental health treatment requirement,
(ii) a drug rehabilitation requirement, or
(iii) an alcohol treatment requirement,
unless the offender expresses willingness to comply with the requirement as amended, and
(c) except with the consent of the offender, may not amend the order while an appeal against the order is pending.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3)(a)—
(a) a community order requirement of a kind within any entry in the table in section 201 is of the same kind as any other community requirement within that entry, and
(b) an electronic compliance monitoring requirement is a requirement of the same kind as any requirement within that table to which it relates.
(5) If the court is of the opinion that the offender has without reasonable excuse breached a community order requirement of the order, the court may adjourn the hearing so that the court can deal with the case forthwith under paragraph 10 or 11 of Schedule 10 (powers of court to deal with offender on breach of requirement).
(6) For some powers available where the court is of the opinion referred to in subsection (5) but does not deal with the case forthwith, see paragraph 9A of Schedule 10.
(7) In this section—
“review hearing”, and
“progress report”,
have the same meanings as in section 217A.
(1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply where a court—
(a) considers the progress report relating to a review under section 217A (the “current review”), and
(b) forms the opinion that the offender’s progress in complying with the community order requirements of the community order is satisfactory.
(2) If the court forms that opinion before a review hearing is held at the current review—
(a) it may order that no review hearing is to be held at the current review, and
(b) it may amend the community order so as to provide for each subsequent review to be held without a review hearing.
(3) If a review hearing is held at the current review, the court may at the hearing amend the community order so as to provide for each subsequent review to be held without a review hearing.
(4) If at a review held without a review hearing the court—
(a) considers the progress report, and
(b) forms the opinion that the offender’s progress under the order is no longer satisfactory,
it may require the offender to attend a hearing of the court at a specified time and place.
(5) At a review hearing the court may amend the community order so as to vary the intervals specified under section 217A(2)(a).
(6) The functions of a court under this section that are exercisable in relation to a review without a hearing are to be exercised—
(a) where the court is the Crown Court, by a judge of the court, and
(b) where the court is a magistrates’ court, by a justice of the peace.
(7) In this section—
“review hearing”, and
“progress report”,
have the same meanings as in section 217A.
218 Breach, revocation , termination or amendment of community order
Schedule 10 makes provision about—
(a) failures to comply with the requirements of community orders;
(b) revocation of community orders;
(ba) termination of community orders;
(c) amendment of community orders.
(1) A community order ceases to be in force—
(a) at the end of the end date (see section 209), or
(b) if later, when the offender has completed any unpaid work requirement imposed by the order.
(2) But a community order ceases to be in force
(a) when it is revoked , or
(b) when it terminates under Part 3A of Schedule 10.
(3) An unpaid work requirement is completed when the offender has worked under it for the number of hours specified in the order.