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Chapter 1 General provisions about sentencingC1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  1. Matters to be taken into account in sentencing
  2. General restrictions on community sentences
  3. General restrictions on discretionary custodial sentences
  4. General limit on magistrates' court’s power to impose imprisonment
  5. Procedural requirements for imposing community sentences and discretionary custodial sentences
  6. Disclosure of pre-sentence reports etc
  7. Pre-sentence drug testing
  8. Surcharges
  9. Fines
  10. Savings for power to mitigate etc
  11. Sentencing and allocation guidelines
  12. Duty of court to explain sentence
  13. Publication of information by Secretary of State
  14. Interpretation of Chapter

Annotations

Modifications

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Pt. 12 Ch. 1: power to amend conferred (30.11.2009) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 4(3), 153; S.I. 2009/3074, art. 2(d)

Notes on Part 12

Modifications

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Pt. 12 modified (28.3.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 31.10.2009) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 183(4), 383 (as amended (1.4.2008) by The Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912), art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 23(2)(b)); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4

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Pt. 12 (ss. 142-305) modified (4.4.2005) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Sentencing) (Transitory Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/643), art. 3 (as amended (E.W.) (3.12.2012) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Consequential and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2824), regs. 1, 3(1) (with reg. 3(2)) and as amended (1.12.2020 immediately before the consolidation date (see 2020 c. 9, ss. 3, 5(2)(3) and 2020 c. 17, ss. 2, 416)) by Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Act 2020 (c. 9), s. 5(2)(3), Sch. 2 para. 139; S.I. 2012/1236, reg. 2)