{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026/schedule-3/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026/schedule-3/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/2",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 15 of Schedule 26 to the Sentencing Act 2020 (amendment of section 224A of the Armed Forces Act 2006 in relation to prospective abolition of sentences of detention in a young offender institution), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) in subsection (1B)(c)(i) (as inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Sentencing Act 2026) omit “or custody”;\n(ab) in subsection (1B)(c)(ii) (as inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Sentencing Act 2026) for “detention or imprisonment under section 266 or 279” substitute “imprisonment under section 279”;\n(ac) in subsection (1B)(c)(iii) (as inserted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Sentencing Act 2026), for “detention or imprisonment under section 268A or 282A” substitute “imprisonment under section 282A”.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 49(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/2/schedule/3/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:43:31.731022+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."
}