Section 356: Sexual harm prevention orders: supplementary

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

Part 11: Behaviour orders — CHAPTER 2: Sexual harm prevention orders

The Secretary of State must issue guidance to chief officers of police in relation to the exercise by them of their powers with regard to sexual harm prevention orders under this Code.

The Secretary of State may revise the guidance issued under subsection (1).

The Secretary of State must arrange for any guidance issued or revised under subsection (1) or (2) to be published in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

Rules of court may, in relation to a person who reaches the age of 18 after proceedings against that person by virtue of section 350, have begun—

prescribe circumstances in which the proceedings may or must remain in the youth court;
make provision for the transfer of the proceedings from the youth court to a magistrates' court that is not a youth court.

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