89 Drug treatment and testing orders
Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (1998 c 37) | Legislation

Offenders dependent etc on drugs

89  Drug treatment and testing orders

After section 234A of the 1995 Act there shall be inserted the following section—

“234B Drug treatment and testing order

(1)     This section applies where a person of 16 years of age or more is convicted of an offence, other than one for which the sentence is fixed by law, committed on or after the date on which section 89 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 comes into force.

(2)     Subject to the provisions of this section, the court by or before which the offender is convicted may, if it is of the opinion that it is expedient to do so instead

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