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Section 67: Reparation orders

Crime and Disorder Act 1998 · 1998 c. 37View on legislation.gov.uk

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part IV: Dealing with offenders — Chapter I: England and Wales

REPEALED on 2000-08-25 by 2000 c.6, s.165.

The text below is the provision as originally enacted. It is historical and may not include amendments made before this status change. View the enacted source.

This section applies where a child or young person is convicted of an offence other than one for which the sentence is fixed by law.

Subject to the provisions of this section and section 68 below, the court by or before which the offender is convicted may make an order (a “reparation order”) which requires the offender to make reparation specified in the order—

to a person or persons so specified; or
to the community at large;

and any person so specified must be a person identified by the court as a victim of the offence or a person otherwise affected by it.

The court shall not make a reparation order unless it has been notified by the Secretary of State that arrangements for implementing such orders are available in the area proposed to be named in the order and the notice has not been withdrawn.

The court shall not make a reparation order in respect of the offender if it proposes—

to pass on him a custodial sentence or a sentence under section 53(1) of the 1933 Act; or
to make in respect of him a community service order, a combination order, a supervision order which includes requirements imposed in pursuance of sections 12 to 12C of the 1969 Act or an action plan order.

A reparation order shall not require the offender—

to work for more than 24 hours in aggregate; or
to make reparation to any person without the consent of that person.

Subject to subsection (5) above, requirements specified in a reparation order shall be such as in the opinion of the court are commensurate with seriousness of the offence, or the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it.

Requirements so specified shall, as far as practicable, be such as to avoid—

any conflict with the offender’s religious beliefs or with the requirements of any community order to which he may be subject; and
any interference with the times, if any, at which the offender normally works or attends school or any other educational establishment.

Any reparation required by a reparation order—

shall be made under the supervision of the responsible officer; and
shall be made within a period of three months from the date of the making of the order.

A reparation order shall name the petty sessions area in which it appears to the court making the order, or to the court varying any provision included in the order in pursuance of this subsection, that the offender resides or will reside.

In this section “responsible officer”, in relation to a reparation order, means one of the following who is specified in the order, namely—

a probation officer;
a social worker of a local authority social services department; and
a member of a youth offending team.

The court shall give reasons if it does not make a reparation order in a case where it has power to do so.

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