Regulation 30 Amendment of the Criminal Justice Act 1988

(1)

Section 139AZA of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (offences under sections 139 and 139A: previous relevant convictions)^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

(a)

in paragraph (b), for “Scotland, Northern Ireland or a member State other than the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”;

(b)

at the end of paragraph (c), insert “and”;

(c)

omit paragraph (e) and the “and” preceding it.

(3)

In subsection (2)—

(a)

for the definition of “civilian offence” substitute—

““civilian offence” means an offence other than an offence under an enactment mentioned in subsection (1)(c) or (d);”;

(b)

in paragraph (b) of the definition of “conviction”, omit “and a member State service offence”;

(c)

omit the definition of “member State service offence”.

Annotations

f1: 1988 c. 33. Section 139AZA was inserted by section 28(7) of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2).