The courts have a range of robust powers when imposing a community or suspended sentence order. These sentences can include the fourteen ‘requirements’ available, such as electronic monitoring and community payback. The courts have the flexibility to choose and balance requirements in line with the statutory purposes of sentencing.
	The ISR recommended that the Government revise the sentencing framework to ensure sentencers can take full advantage of the flexibility of community sentencing, including financial penalties and ancillary orders. In particular the review recommended that restrictions on the use of some ancillary orders should be removed to allow them to be used as a primary disposal.
	This Act introduces four new requirements to the "menu" of options available to the court when imposing a community or suspended sentence order. These requirements are based on existing ancillary orders but are being added to the existing sentencing framework to ensure they are suitable as sentencing options. The aim of these measures is to provide the court with further flexibility to tailor sentences to individual offenders. The measures are intended to offer courts a wider range of options to impose tough community punishment on offenders and to be available regardless of whether the requirement used is directly linked to the offence committed.
	The four new requirements which this Act includes are: banning offenders from attending sports and public events; banning offenders from entering drinking establishments including pubs, clubs and bars; prohibiting offenders from driving; and requiring an offender to stay within a specified geographic location (a "restriction zone").
	The court will be able to use any of the new requirements where the court considers it appropriate and the court’s powers on breach will be the same as for breach of any other requirement of a community or suspended sentence order.
	The measure also includes a power for the Lord Chancellor to add to, or amend, any requirement available as part of a suspended or community sentence order via secondary legislation to provide future flexibility to respond to changing needs of the criminal justice system.
Policy background Part 1: Sentencing New community order requirements and community requirements