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Legal Terms – Community Order
Under the Criminal Justice Act of 2003, a sentence may be imposed that imposes one or more of the following fourteen specified requirements: unpaid work; drug rehabilitation; program; prohibited activity; curfew; exclusion; residence; foreign travel prohibition order; mental health treatment; drug rehabilitation; alcohol treatment; supervision; electronic monitoring; and, if the offender is under the age of 25, a requirement for an attendance center. In the form of *youth rehabilitation orders, the community order system was expanded to include offenders who were 18 years of age or younger by the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008. According to the same Act, adult community orders may only be issued in the following situations: (i) the offense carries a jail sentence; or (ii) the offender has already been found guilty and penalized three times.
Under the Criminal Justice Act of 2003, a sentence may be imposed that imposes one or more of the following fourteen specified requirements: unpaid work; drug rehabilitation; program; prohibited activity; curfew; exclusion; residence; foreign travel prohibition order; mental health treatment; drug rehabilitation; alcohol treatment; supervision; electronic monitoring; and, if the offender is under the age of 25, a requirement for an attendance center. In the form of *youth rehabilitation orders, the community order system was expanded to include offenders who were 18 years of age or younger by the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008. According to the same Act, adult community orders may only be issued in the following situations: (i) the offense carries a jail sentence; or (ii) the offender has already been found guilty and penalized three times.
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