Section 36 subsection (1) removes the period to undertake an unpaid work requirement for community and suspended sentences orders in paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 to the Sentencing Code by removing the reference to "during a period of 12 months". This removes requirement to complete an unpaid work requirement in the first 12 months of a Community Sentence. Subsection (2) makes corresponding amendments to Schedule A1 to the Children Act 1989.
	Subsection (3) is an application provision which applies the changes to orders going forward but also to those already being served.
	Subsection (4) makes consequential amendments in paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 19A to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and subsection (5) provides for prospective consequential amendments to this provision should the provision come into force before the coming into force subsection (4).
	Section (6) makes consequential amendments to paragraph 112 of Schedule 24 to the Sentencing Act 2020 to remove references to the 12-month period.
	These amendments also apply to such a requirement imposed as part of a suspended custodial sentence, service community order or overseas community order in the service justice system by virtue of sections 200, 178 and 182 of the Armed Forces Act 2006.
Part 2: Management of offenders after sentencing Section 36: Removal of maximum period for unpaid work requirement