Commentary Community orders and suspended sentence orders Section 17: Attendance centre requirement
121.Section 17 amends section 214 of the 2003 Act, which makes provision for an offender aged under 25 to be required to attend an attendance centre as part of a community order or suspended sentence order.
122.Subsection (5) of section 17 amends section 214 to provide that the responsible officer, rather than the court, must notify the offender which attendance centre he or she is required to attend. The remainder of section 17 makes consequential amendments to give effect to the change at section 17(5).