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Section 342L: Serious violence reduction orders: interpretation

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 11: Behaviour orders — CHAPTER 1A: Serious violence reduction orders

In this Chapter—

  • “bladed article” means an article to which section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies;

  • “custodial sentence” includes a pre-Code custodial sentence (see section 222(4));

  • “harm” includes physical and psychological harm;

  • “offensive weapon” has the same meaning as in section 1(4) of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953;

  • “public place” means—any place to which the public or any section of the public has access, on payment or otherwise, as of right or by virtue of express or implied permission, orany other place to which people have ready access but which is not a dwelling;

  • “the offender”, in relation to a serious violence reduction order, means the offender in respect of whom the order or the application for the order has been made.

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