{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/43",
  "legislation_title": "Crime (Sentences) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Minor and consequential amendments.",
  "text": "(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.\n(2) For the purposes of any of those enactments as so amended—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) a sentence falls to be imposed under subsection (3A) of section 70 of the Army Act 1955 or the Air Force Act 1955 or subsection (1A) of section 42 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 if it is required by that subsection and the court-martial is not of the opinion there mentioned.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 55(2)(a) repealed (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165, 168(1), Sch. 12 Pt. I (with Sch. 11 paras. 1, 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 55(2)(b) substituted (E.W.) (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 106, Sch. 7 para. 54; S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(w)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1955 c.18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1955 c.19."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1957 c.53."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 55 wholly in force at 1.12.1999; S. 55 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 57(2); S. 55(1)(2)(b) (and 55(2)(a) for specified purposes) in force at 1.10.1997 by S.I. 1997/2200, art. 2(1); S. 55 in force at 1.12.1999 to the extent not already in force at 1.12.1999 by S.I. 1999/3096, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland and Northern Ireland only."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2001/19",
      "affecting_title": "Armed Forces Act 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/43/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:59.837778+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}