Commentary on Sections Part 12 - Sentencing Chapter 2 : Community Sentences for offenders aged 16 or over Section 177: Community orders
498.Subsection (1) provides that a community order may impose on the offender one or more of the following requirements:
	an unpaid work requirement;
	an activity requirement;
	a programme requirement;
	a prohibited activity requirement;
	a curfew requirement;
	an exclusion requirement;
	a residence requirement;
	a mental health treatment requirement;
	a drug rehabilitation requirement;
	an alcohol treatment requirement;
	a supervision requirement;
	if an offender is under 25, an attendance centre requirement.
499.Certain of the requirements are subject to restrictions, identified in subsection (2). Subsection (3) provides that if the court makes a community order that includes a curfew requirement or an exclusion requirement, it must also impose an electronic monitoring requirement (as defined in Section 215) unless electronic monitoring is not available in the local area or if someone else whose consent is required (e.g. a landlord) withholds that consent. The court may also decide electronic monitoring is inappropriate in the particular case. Subject to the same provisos, under subsection (4), the court may impose electronic monitoring in conjunction with any of the other requirements listed above. Subsection (5) states that community orders cannot exceed three years in length, and the court can specify the duration of requirements within a community order. Subsection (6) requires the court to consider the compatibility of the various requirements it proposes to include.