{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Assessing seriousness",
  "text": "Where a court is considering the seriousness of any offence, it must consider—\n(a) the offender's culpability in committing the offence, and\n(b) any harm which the offence—\n(i) caused,\n(ii) was intended to cause, or\n(iii) might foreseeably have caused.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 63 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/63",
    "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."
}