Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014: Explanatory Notes

Ch.11-EN

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TSO (The Stationery Office)

'Offender Rehabilitation Act Explanatory Notes (Ch.11-EN) are intended to assist the reader of The Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (see below), and to help inform debate on it.

The Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 makes a number of changes to the release arrangements, set out in the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (see below) for adult offenders serving custodial sentences of less than 12 months and for those serving sentences of between 12 months and 2 years.

The Act introduces:

• arrangements for release under licence to offenders serving fixed-term custodial sentences of more than 1 day but less than 12 months;

• supervision arrangements for offenders released from fixed-term custodial sentences of less than 2 years so that all offenders are supervised in the community for at least 12 months;

• a court process and sanctions for breach of supervision requirements for offenders serving fixed-term custodial sentences of less than 2 years;

• a requirement that offenders sentenced to an extended determinate sentence must have an extension period of supervision of at least 1 year;

• a drug appointments condition for the licence or supervision period for offenders released from custody, expanding the existing drug testing requirement for licences to include Class B drugs;

• a rule that any juvenile who reaches his or her 18th birthday before being released from the custodial element of a Detention and Training Order (DTO) should spend at least 12 months under supervision in the community; and

• requirements that contracts or other arrangements made under the Offender Management Act 2007 for the supervision or rehabilitation of offenders must state what provision, if any, is intended to meet the particular needs of female offenders.

Extent	26 pages	ISBN	9780105611141
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Format	Paperback	Published	24 Mar 2014
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