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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-23/paragraph-14A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-23/paragraph-14A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/23/paragraph/14A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend section 224(1A)(b) (general limit on custodial sentence for either-way offence in magistrates’ court)—\n(a) if for the time being it refers to 12 months, to substitute a reference to 6 months for the reference to 12 months, or\n(b) if for the time being it refers to 6 months, to substitute a reference to 12 months for the reference to 6 months.\n(2) An amendment under sub-paragraph (1) has effect only in relation to an offence for which a person is convicted on or after the day on which the amendment comes into force.\n(3) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) are subject to the negative resolution procedure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 23 para. 14A and cross-heading inserted (14.7.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), ss. 13(2), 51(4); S.I. 2022/816, regs. 1(2), 3(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/2",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/schedule/23/paragraph/14A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+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."
}