This section applies when a court makes a community order.
The court must forthwith provide copies of the order—
to the offender,
to the responsible officer,
to an officer of a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider who is acting at the court, and
if the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, to a provider of probation services that is a public sector provider and is operating in that area.
If the order imposes any requirement specified in column 1 of the following table, the court must also forthwith provide the person specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 with a copy of so much of the order as relates to the requirement.
If the court does not act in the offender's home local justice area, it must provide the magistrates' court acting in that area with—
a copy of the order, and
such documents and information relating to the case as it considers likely to be of assistance to a court acting in that area in the exercise of its functions in relation to the order.
In subsection (2) “public sector provider” means—
a probation trust or other public body, or
the Secretary of State.