{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Increase in penalty for assault on emergency worker",
  "text": "(1) In section 1 of the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 (offence of common assault, or battery, committed against emergency worker), in subsection (2)(b) (penalty for conviction on indictment), for “12 months” substitute “2 years”.\n(2) Subsection (1) applies only in relation to offences committed on or after the day on which this section comes into force.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:35.152975+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."
}