Section 360: Restraining order: availability

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

Part 11: Behaviour orders — CHAPTER 3: Protection from harassment

This section applies where a court is dealing with an offender for an offence.

The court may make a restraining order under this section against the offender for the purpose of protecting the victim or victims of the offence, or any other person mentioned in the order, from conduct which—

amounts to harassment, or
will cause a fear of violence.

But the court may make a restraining order under this section only if it does so in addition to dealing with the offender for the offence.

About this text

This legislation text comes from legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These source and reuse terms cover the legislation text, not Remedy's commentary.

Reuse reviewed 21 August 2026 under Open Government Licence v3.0.