Section 209: Community order to specify end date etc

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

Part 9: Community sentences — CHAPTER 2: Community orders

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

The end date must not be more than 3 years after the date of the order.

If a community order imposes two or more different community order 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.

Section 220 sets out the effect of the end date.

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