{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-20B/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/20B/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Paragraphs 21 and 22 apply where a person (“P”) is serving two or more sentences of imprisonment imposed on or after 1 October 1992 and—\n(a) the sentences were passed on the same occasion, or\n(b) where they were passed on different occasions, the person has not been released under Part 2 of the 1991 Act or under this Chapter at any time during the period beginning with the first and ending with the last of those occasions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 20B inserted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 17 para. 10; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(o)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "substituted for Sch. 20B para. 34(6)",
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      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015"
    },
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    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/2",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
    },
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      "type": "words omitted",
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    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:27.767865+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."
}