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The Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases.
Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
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The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases to be described in regulations. The Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023 (the “2023 Regulations”) and the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024 (the “2024 Regulations”) describe certain such cases (“specified cases”).
Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025
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These Regulations amend paragraph 9 of Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code. They create two additional statutory aggravating factors in the determination of the minimum term in relation to mandatory life sentences for murder.
Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
SI explanatory text
The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases to be described in regulations. The Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023 (the “2023 Regulations”) describes certain such cases (“specified cases”).
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Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.
Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024
SI explanatory text
The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases.
Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2023
SI explanatory text
These Regulations amend paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Act 2020. They create two additional statutory aggravating factors, and one additional statutory mitigating factor, in the determination of the minimum term in relation to mandatory life sentences for murder.
Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023
SI explanatory text
The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases.
SI explanatory text
Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of any one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.
Sentencing Act 2020 (Serious Violence Reduction Orders: Retention and Disposal of Seized Items) Regulations 2022
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Section 342E of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) (“the Sentencing Code”) provides constables with a power to search a person subject to a Serious Violence Reduction Order to ascertain if they have a bladed article or offensive weapon with them. Section 342E(4) enables a constable to seize anything found in the course of the search which the constable reasonably suspects to be a bladed article or an offensive weapon.
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Section 43 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c.17) requires a court, when dealing with a person for one or more offences, to order that person to pay a surcharge. The amount of the surcharge that is payable in particular circumstances is set out in the Schedule to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) (Order) 2012 (S.I. 2012/1696) (“the 2012 Order”). Regulation 2 of these Regulations substitutes the Schedule to the 2012 Order to provide for an increase in those amounts and reflects the changes made by the Sentencing Act 2020.
SI explanatory text
Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.
SI explanatory text
Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of any one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.