[234J Concurrent drug treatment and testing and probation orders]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[234J  Concurrent drug treatment and testing and probation orders]

[(1)     Notwithstanding [section] 234B(2) of this Act, where the court considers it expedient that the offender should be subject to a drug treatment and testing order and to a [community payback order], it may make both such orders in respect of the offender.

(2)     In deciding whether it is expedient for it to exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) above, the court shall have regard to the circumstances, including the nature of the offence and the character of the offender and to the

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