The phrase "a referral order" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or administrative contexts when discussing a directive to refer someone to another authority or service.
Example: "The judge issued a referral order for the defendant to attend a rehabilitation program."
Alternatives: "a referral directive" or "a referral mandate."
Fairweather carried out his first attack just three days after he had been handed a referral order for a knifepoint robbery on a shopkeeper.
He pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon and was given a referral order, a non-custodial sentence in which he will be required to make reparation through community work.
He was already on a referral order after pleading guilty to witness intimidation and the district judge had told him she would personally see to it that he went down if he re-offended.
At Royal Holloway, University of London, criminologist Alex Newbury conducted in-depth studies of 11- and 12-year-olds who received a referral order – non-custodial sentences in which the offender agrees a "contract" with a three-strong panel that can include writing letters of apology, practical work for the victim or community, and support aimed at preventing reoffending.
View "British Court Tweets 1″ on Storify Another case, of a 13-year-old boy charged with carrying a weapon during the riots in Manchester, ended with a guilty plea and the young offender receiving a referral order, a kind of youth probation.
Morrison has created far more of a stir outside of football than within, with a judge in Salford last week reactivating a referral order for the teenager which he had lifted in error, and Scholes' belief that Sir Alex Ferguson might take the teenager in the United party which departed on tour to the United States yesterday has not come to pass.
He received a youth referral order for both.
He was brought up in Wythenshawe, one of Manchester's most uncompromising neighbourhoods, and two days after he signed academy forms on his 17th birthday he was arrested for intimidating a witness and given a 12-month referral order.
Sentencing of Aaron Cauchi, 19, was adjourned over illness while a boy, 16, was given a six-month referral order.
He was before District Judge Jonathan Finestein, whose earlier decision effectively to remove a 12-month referral order in Morrison's case was challenged by the family of a youth whom earlier in the year he was convicted of intimidating.
I was in and out of court, and then I had a young offender's referral order for a year.
