Section 112: Requirements to make reparation to be specified in order

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 6: Orders relating to conduct — CHAPTER 2: Reparation orders for offenders aged under 18

This section applies where a court makes a reparation order in respect of an offence.

The reparation order must—

specify the requirements with which the offender must comply, and
if those requirements require reparation to be made to a particular person or particular persons, specify that person or those persons.

Any person specified under subsection (2)(b) must be a person identified by the court as—

a victim of the offence, or
a person otherwise affected by it.

The reparation order may not impose a requirement to make reparation to a particular person without the consent of that person.

The requirements must be requirements to make reparation which—

may require the offender to perform work, but
if they do, must not require the offender to work for more than 24 hours in aggregate.

The requirements must, so far as practicable, be such as to avoid—

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

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