[342A Power to make serious violence reduction order]
Sentencing Act 2020 (2020 c 17) | Legislation

[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

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