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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-275",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-275.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/275",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "275",
  "heading": "Duty to impose custody for life for offence of murder",
  "text": "(1) Where a person aged under 21 is convicted of—\n(a) murder, or\n(b) any other offence the sentence for which is fixed by law as life imprisonment,\nthe court must sentence the offender to custody for life.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where the offender is liable to be detained under section 259 (detention at Her Majesty's pleasure for offender under 18).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 275 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/275",
    "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."
}