This section provides for a new process for ending community orders on completion of all court-ordered requirements and where the responsible officer considers that all other objectives set out in the offender’s sentence plan have been completed and does not consider it necessary to add to these objectives.
	It incorporates this process for community orders into the Sentencing Code by amending Part 3 of Schedule 10 of the Code to insert a new Paragraph 3A.
	Sections (2) to (4) amend Sections 218, 220(2) and Part 3 of Schedule 10 of the Code to refer to this new Paragraph 3A.
	Sections (5) inserts a new paragraph 15A.Sub paragraph (1) sets out the circumstances in which the new process will apply and when community orders using this process will end. It will apply to all community orders in force that are not subject to review using special procedures under Section 217 of the Code. This means that, where the Secretary of State has made regulations under Section 217 enabling or requiring a court making a community order to provide for periodic review of that order by a court (for example, orders within the Intensive Supervision Court process), community orders captured by such regulations and that contain such a provision will not be ended using this new process.
	This paragraph sets out that community orders subject to this process that impose a probation requirement will only end when the responsible officer considers that no further instructions are required in respect of that requirement.
	Community orders that are subject to this process and that impose one or more other requirements listed in Section 201 of the Sentencing Code will only end when an offender has complied with all of these other requirements.
	Where a sentence plan has been prepared, the responsible officer considers that all objectives have been met and that no further objectives are required.
	Subparagraph (2) sets out that the community order will end on the date that the responsible officer specifies that these requirements are met.
	Subparagraph (3) defines the sentence plan in relation to community orders.
	Subparagraph (4) is a transitional provision which applies if this section comes into force prior to section 13 of this Act.
	Subsection (6) sets out that this section will apply to all orders going forward but also retrospectively to all community orders already imposed.
Part 2: Management of offenders after sentencing Section 38: Termination of a community order