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Section 203: Restriction on making both community order and suspended sentence order

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

Part 9: Community sentences — CHAPTER 2: Community orders

A court may not make a community order in respect of an offence if it makes a suspended sentence order in respect of—

the offence,
any other offence of which the offender is convicted by or before it, or
any other offence for which it deals with the offender.

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