Part 10: Management of offenders Chapter 1: Serious Violence Reduction Orders Section 166: Serious violence reduction orders: Piloting
This section makes provision for two conditions which must be met before the provisions relating to SVROs in section 165 can be brought into force across the whole of England and Wales for all purposes. Firstly, SVROs must be piloted in one or more area in England and Wales for one or more specified purposes; and secondly, the Secretary of State must lay a report before Parliament on the operation of the pilot. Subsection (4) provides that report must in particular include information about the number of offenders in respect of whom an SVRO has been made; information about the offences that were the basis for applications as a result of which SVROs were made; information about the exercise by constables of the stop and search powers in section 342E of the Code; an assessment of the impact of the operation of Chapter 1A of Part 11 of the Code on people with protected characteristic (within the meaning of the Equality Act 2010); an initial assessment of the impact of SVROs on the reoffending rates of offenders in respect of whom such orders have been made; an assessment of the impact on offenders of being subject to a SVRO; information about the number of offences committed under section 342G of the Code (offences relating to an SVRO) and the number of suspected offences under that section that have been investigated.
	Subsections (5) and (6) provide that regulations made under section 208(1) bringing into force section 165 for the purpose of piloting may provide for a specified period for the pilot and that subsequent regulations may continue the pilot for a further specified period.