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Attendance Centre Orders

Volume 186: debated on Monday 25 February 1991

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Amendment made: No. 40, in page 35, line 43, al end insert:

'(6) After subsection (5) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

"(5A) In dealing with an offender under subsection (3)(a) or (5) above, the court concerned—

  • (a) shall take into account the extent to which the offender has complied with the requirements of the attendance centre order; and
  • (b) may assume, in the case of an offender who has wilfully and persistently failed to comply with those requirements, that he has refused to give his consent to a community sentence which has been proposed by the court and requires that consent.".'—[Mr. John Patten.]