Section 18 General power of Crown Court to impose sentence of imprisonment on conviction on indictment.
England and Wales
Where a person is convicted on indictment of an offence against any enactment and is for that offence liable to be sentenced to imprisonment, but the sentence is not by any enactment either limited to a specified term or expressed to extend to imprisonment for life, the person so convicted shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than two years.
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Annotations
Textual amendments
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S. 18(2) repealed by Criminal Attempts Act 1981 (c. 47, SIF 39:1), Sch. Pt. I
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165, 168(1), Sch. 12 Pt. I (with Sch. 11 paras. 1, 2)
Notes on Part I
Modifications
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Pt. I (ss. 1-46) modified (E.W.) (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 11 (1)(3), 101(1), Sch. 12, para. 1 (with s. 28); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2