Section 21Part 7 — Suspended Sentence Supervision Orders
Suspended sentence supervision orders
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Where a court passes on a convicted person a suspended sentence for a term of more than six months for a single offence, the court may make a suspended sentence supervision order, (“a suspended sentence supervision order”), placing the convicted person under the supervision of a supervising officer for a period which is specified in the order, being a period which does not exceed the operational period of the suspended sentence.
A suspended sentence supervision order shall specify the area in which the convicted person resides or will reside; and the supervising officer shall be a probation officer appointed for or assigned to the area for the time being specified in the order.
A convicted person in respect of whom a suspended sentence supervision order is in force shall keep in touch with the supervising officer in accordance with such instructions as he may from time to time be given by that officer and shall notify him of any change of address.
On making a suspended sentence supervision order, the court shall explain its effect to the convicted person in ordinary language.
The court by which a suspended sentence supervision order is made shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, cause copies of the order to be given to a probation officer assigned to the court, and he shall give a copy of the order to the convicted person and to the supervising officer.
A suspended sentence supervision order shall cease to have effect if before the end of the period specified in it —
a court orders that a suspended sentence passed in the proceedings in which the order was made shall have effect; or
the order is discharged or replaced under the subsequent provision of this section.
A suspended sentence supervision order may be discharged, on the application of the supervising officer or the convicted person, by the court that made the order.
Where, under section 24 of the Penal Code (2007 Revision), a court deals with a convicted person in respect of a suspended sentence by varying the operational period of the sentence or by making no order with respect to the sentence, the court may make a suspended sentence supervision order in respect of the convicted person —
in place of any such order made when the suspended sentence was passed;
if the court which passed the sentence could have made such an order but did not do so; or
if that court could not then have made such an order but would have had power to do so if subsection (1) had then had effect as it has effect at the time when the convicted person is dealt with under section 24 of the Penal Code (2007 Revision).
Defined Terms
suspended sentence supervision order
Cross References
- Section 24 of Penal Codeexternal
Reference to dealing with suspended sentences under Penal Code