The Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
S.I. 2025/1207 · Made 18 November 2025
CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 18th November 2025
Laid before Parliament 20th November 2025
Coming into force
Regulations 1 and 3 13th December 2025
Regulation 2 25th December 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 395A(1) and (5) of the Sentencing Act 2020f1.
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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2020 c. 17. Section 395A was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 14 to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32).
Contents
- 1Citation, commencement and extent
- 2Amendment of the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023
- 3Amendment of the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024
- Signature
- Explanatory note
1Citation, commencement and extent
These Regulations may be cited as the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.
Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 13th December 2025.
Regulation 2 comes into force on 25th December 2025.
These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
2Amendment of the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023
In the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023f1, in regulation 3, for the words from “of” to “force” substitute “beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending with 31st March 2029”.
3Amendment of the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024
In the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024f1, in regulation 3, for the words from “of” to “force” substitute “beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending with 31st March 2029”.
Signature
Timpson
Minister of State
Ministry of Justice
18th November 2025
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases to be described in regulations. The Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023 (the “2023 Regulations”) and the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024 (the “2024 Regulations”) describe certain such cases (“specified cases”).
In accordance with section 395A(4) of the Sentencing Act 2020, when the 2023 Regulations and 2024 Regulations were made, they each provided that specified cases qualify for special procedures only if the community or suspended sentence order was made within a period of 18 months beginning on the day the regulations came into force. The Sentencing Act (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 subsequently amended the 2023 Regulations to provide that a specified case qualified for special procedures if the order was made within a period of 30 (rather than 18) months after the 2023 Regulations came into force. The 2024 Regulations have not, prior to these Regulations, been amended.
The 2023 Regulations came into force on 26th June 2023 and, therefore, in the absence of further legislation, specified cases would have ceased to qualify for special procedures after 25th December 2025. The 2024 Regulations came into force on 14th June 2024 and, therefore, in the absence of further legislation, specified cases would have ceased to qualify for special procedures after 13th December 2025.
These Regulations amend both the 2023 Regulations and 2024 Regulations to provide that specified cases will continue to qualify for special procedures if the community or suspended sentence order is made on, or before, 31st March 2029.