{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-400",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-400.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/400",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "400",
  "heading": "Meaning of “associated offence”",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Code, an offence is associated with another if—\n(a) the offender—\n(i) is convicted of it in the proceedings in which the offender is convicted of the other offence, or\n(ii) (although convicted of it in earlier proceedings) is sentenced for it at the same time as being sentenced for that offence, or\n(b) in the proceedings in which the offender is sentenced for the other offence, the offender—\n(i) admits having committed it, and\n(ii) asks the court to take it into consideration in sentencing for that other offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 400 applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 4, s. 39(6)(a), Sch 7 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 paras. 266(5), 270 (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 400 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/400",
    "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."
}