Guidance for members of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) and for other Government drafters on the Sentencing Code (in the Sentencing Act 2020).
1. There are changes throughout to reflect the fact that the Code has come into force as the previous version of the note was issued before that.2. Paragraphs 2.10 and 3.16 and 3.17 are a reminder that references in legislation passed or made since the Sentencing Act 2020 to provisions of the Code, or to sentences passed under the Code, do not include references to the earlier legislation or to sentences under that earlier legislation.3. Footnote 7 refers to the case R v Jex and others [2021].4. Paragraphs 2.17 and 3.13 now state that any Bill that amends the Sentencing Code should routinely include provision corresponding to section 419 of the Sentencing Act 2020.5. Paragraphs 3.21 to 3.23 reflect the recent changes to maximum sentences in magistrates courts for offences triable either way.6. Paragraphs 3.30 to 3.32 deal with exercising the power in section 419 of the Sentencing Act 2020.
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