{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentence-determination-of-minimum-term-order-2009/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentence-determination-of-minimum-term-order-2009/note.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111488300",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Mandatory Life Sentence: Determination of Minimum Term) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentence-determination-of-minimum-term-order-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends Schedule 21 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c.44) (minimum terms for mandatory life sentence) to create a new starting point for courts when considering the minimum term to impose on an offender who is convicted of murder using a knife or other weapon.\nWhere an offender aged 18 or over takes a knife or other weapon to the scene of the crime with the intention of using it to commit any offence or to use it as a weapon and does use it in committing the murder, the offence will normally attract a starting point of 25 years when a court is considering the appropriate minimum term.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111488300/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:56:25.379048+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."
}