[204A Exercise of power to impose community order: persistent offender previously fined]

[204A  Exercise of power to impose community order: persistent offender previously fined]

[(1)     Subsection (2) applies (in addition to section 204(2)) where—

(a)     a community order is available to a court dealing with an offender by virtue of section 202(1A)(b) (offender fined at least three times), and

(b)     the offence is not punishable with imprisonment by that court.

(2)     The court may not make a community order unless it also considers that, having regard to all the circumstances including the matters mentioned in subsection (5), it would be in the interests

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