{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-264B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-264B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "section/264B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "264B",
  "heading": "Consecutive terms: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in a case in which section 264 applies where—\n(a) the offender is released on licence under this Chapter,\n(b) the aggregate length of the terms of imprisonment mentioned in section 264(1)(a) is less than 12 months, and\n(c) those terms include one or more terms of imprisonment (“short transitional terms”) which were imposed under section 250 of the Sentencing Code in respect of an offence committed before the day on which section 1 of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 came into force, as well as one or more terms imposed (whether or not under section 250 of the Code) in respect of an offence committed on or after that day.\n(2) The offender is to be on licence until the offender would, but for the release, have served a term equal in length to the aggregate of—\n(a) the minimum custodial period in relation to each of the short transitional terms, and\n(b) the full length of each of the other terms.\n(3) In this section “custodial period minimum custodial period” has the same meaning as in section 264.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 264B inserted (1.2.2015) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), ss. 5(3), 22(1) (with Sch. 7 para. 2); S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 264B(1)(b) omitted (1.10.2026 except in relation to sentences for excluded offences listed in Sch.) by virtue of Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 23(8)(a), 49(1) (with s. 23(12)-(15)); S.I. 2026/953, regs. 2(a), 5, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 264B(1)(c) omitted (1.10.2026 except in relation to sentences for excluded offences listed in Sch.) by virtue of Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 23(8)(b)(i), 49(1) (with s. 23(12)-(15)); S.I. 2026/953, regs. 2(a), 5, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 264B(1)(c) inserted (1.10.2026 except in relation to sentences for excluded offences listed in Sch.) by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 23(8)(b)(ii), 49(1) (with s. 23(12)-(15)); S.I. 2026/953, regs. 2(a), 5, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 264B(1)(c) inserted (1.10.2026 except in relation to sentences for excluded offences listed in Sch.) by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 23(8)(b)(iii), 49(1) (with s. 23(12)-(15)); S.I. 2026/953, regs. 2(a), 5, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 264B(2)(a) inserted (1.10.2026 except in relation to sentences for excluded offences listed in Sch.) by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 23(8)(c), 49(1) (with s. 23(12)-(15)); S.I. 2026/953, regs. 2(a), 5, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 264B(3) substituted (1.10.2026 except in relation to sentences for excluded offences listed in Sch.) by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 23(8)(d), 49(1) (with s. 23(12)-(15)); S.I. 2026/953, regs. 2(a), 5, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 264B applied by 1997 c. 43, Sch. 1 para. 8(2)(a) (as amended (1.2.2015) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 3 para. 3(2)(a) (with Sch. 7 para. 2); S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(u))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 264B applied by 1997 c. 43, Sch. 1 para. 9(4)(a) (as amended (1.2.2015) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 3 para. 3(3)(a) (with Sch. 7 para. 2); S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(u))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 264B applied by 1997 c. 43, Sch. 1 para. 9(2)(a)(4)(a) (as amended (1.2.2015) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 3 para. 5(2)(3) (with Sch. 7 para. 2); S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(u))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 264B excluded (22.3.2026) by 1984 c. 27, Sch. para. 2B(8) (as inserted by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 41(1), 49(4) (with s. 41(3)(4)))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/section/264B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:40.404644+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."
}