This section applies where a youth offender contract has taken effect between an offender and a youth offender panel.
The compliance period begins with the day on which the youth offender contract takes effect.
The length of the compliance period is—
if the contract relates to a single referral order, the period specified in the order under section 86(1)(b);
if the contract relates to two or more referral orders, the total period resulting from any direction of the court under section 88(4).
Subsection (3) is subject to—
any order under paragraph 9, 12 or 15 of Schedule 4 extending the length of the compliance period, and
subsection (5).
The compliance period expires on revocation of the referral order, or each of the referral orders, to which the youth offender contract relates.