This section applies where a court makes referral orders in respect of two or more connected offences.
The referral orders have the effect of referring the offender to a single youth offender panel.
Accordingly, provision made by the orders under section 83(1)(a) and section 86(1)(a) (which relates to the youth offending team and a youth offender panel) must be the same for each referral order.
The court may direct that the period specified under section 86(1)(b) in any of the referral orders is to run—
the period specified in another of the referral orders.
But a direction under subsection (4) must not result in a total period of more than 12 months.
For the purposes of this Chapter, each of the orders mentioned in subsection (1) is associated with each other of those orders.