Section 221: Provision of attendance centres

Criminal Justice Act 2003 · 2003 c. 44View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 12: Sentencing — Chapter 4: Further provisions about orders under Chapters 2 and 3

The Secretary of State may continue to provide attendance centres.

In this Part "attendance centre" means a place at which offenders ... may be required to attend and be given under supervision appropriate occupation or instruction in pursuance of—

attendance centre requirements of relevant orders, or
attendance centre requirements of youth rehabilitation orders, within the meaning given by section 173 of the Sentencing Code,
attendance centre orders under section 60 of the PCC(S)A 2000,
default orders under section 300 of this Act, or
youth default orders under section 39 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.

For the purpose of providing attendance centres, the Secretary of State may make arrangements with any local authority or local policing body for the use of premises of that authority or body.

In this section "relevant order" means—

an order under section 177(1) (community order) or 189(1) (suspended sentence order);
a relevant order within the meaning given by section 397 of the Sentencing Code, made in respect of an offence of which the offender was convicted before the day on which paragraph 5 of Schedule 13 to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 came into force.

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