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Section 301: Duty of offender to keep in touch with responsible officer etc

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

Part 10: Custodial sentences — CHAPTER 5: Suspended sentences

This section applies during the supervision period of a suspended sentence order which imposes one or more community requirements.

In the case of any suspended sentence order (whenever the offender was convicted) the offender—

must keep in touch with the responsible officer in accordance with such instructions as the responsible officer may give the offender from time to time, and
must notify the responsible officer of—
any name which the offender uses but which is not mentioned in the suspended sentence order, and
each of the offender’s telephone numbers and email addresses (if any).

The offender must comply with subsection (2)(b) in relation to a name, telephone number or email address as soon as reasonably practicable after the order is made or the person first uses that name or obtains that telephone number or email address.

An obligation under this section is enforceable as if it were a community requirement imposed by the suspended sentence order.

The obligations under subsection (2) apply in relation to suspended sentence orders made before (as well as those made after) section 192 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 comes into force.

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