Section 187: Youth rehabilitation order to specify end date

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

Part 9: Community sentences — CHAPTER 1: Youth rehabilitation orders

A youth rehabilitation order must specify a date (the “end date”) by which all the requirements in it must have been complied with.

The end date must be—

not more than 3 years, and
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.

If a youth rehabilitation order imposes two or more different youth rehabilitation requirements—

the order may also specify, for each of the requirements, a date by which the requirement must have been complied with;
if it does so, the last of those dates must be the same as the end date.

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