165 Serious violence reduction orders
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (2022 c 32) | Legislation

Part 10 Management of Offenders

Chapter 1
Serious Violence Reduction Orders

165  Serious violence reduction orders

(1)     In Part 11 of the Sentencing Code (behaviour orders) after Chapter 1 insert—

“Chapter 1A
Serious Violence Reduction Orders
342A Power to make serious violence reduction order

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     a person aged 18 or over (“the offender”) is convicted of an offence which was committed on or after the first appointed day, and

(b)     the prosecution makes an application to the court for a serious violence reduction order to be made in respect of the offender.

(2)     Subject to subsection (6), the court may make a serious violence reduction order in respect of the offender if—

(a)     the condition in subsection (3) or (4) is met, and

(b)     the condition in subsection (5) is met.

(3)     The condition in this subsection is that the court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that—

(a)     a bladed article or offensive weapon was used by the offender in the commission of the offence, or

(b)     the offender had a bladed article or offensive weapon with them when the offence was committed.

(4)     The condition in this subsection

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