Legislation – Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
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Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, Cross Heading: Unpaid work requirements is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 29 December 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.![]()
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Part 7 Chapter 2 Crossheading Unpaid-work-requirements:
- Pt. 2 Ch. 3A inserted by 2024 c. 21 s. 28
- s. 44F inserted by 2024 c. 21 s. 29
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Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- Pt. 2 Ch. 3A inserted by 2024 c. 21 s. 28
- s. 44F inserted by 2024 c. 21 s. 29
PART 7Sentencing and release
CHAPTER 2Community sentences
Unpaid work requirements
155Duty to consult on unpaid work requirements
“10ADuty to consult on unpaid work requirements
(1)
Each provider of probation services must, in each calendar year, consult the prescribed persons about the work to be performed by persons who—
(a)
are subject to unpaid work requirements, and
(b)
are supervised by that provider.
(2)
In this section “prescribed person” means a person, or a person of a description, prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(3)
In this section “unpaid work requirement” means an unpaid work requirement as defined by—
(a)
paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 6 to the Sentencing Code (youth rehabilitation orders),
(b)
paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 9 to the Sentencing Code (community orders and suspended sentence orders), or
(c)
paragraph 3A(1) of Schedule A1 to the Children Act 1989 (enforcement orders).
(4)
For the purposes of this section a person is supervised by a provider of probation services if an officer of that provider has functions relating to the person’s compliance with an unpaid work requirement.”