{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026/section-34.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/2",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Repeal of provisions relating to supervision after end of sentence",
  "text": "(1) In the Criminal Justice Act 2003—\n(a) for the italic heading before section 256AA, for “offenders” substitute “certain young offenders after release”;\n(b) omit sections 256AA to 256AC (supervision after end of sentence of prisoners serving less than 2 years);\n(c) omit Schedule 19A (supervision default orders).\n(2) In the Sentencing Code, omit section 247 (supervision after end of term of detention and training order).\n(3) Schedule 5 makes provision which is consequential on subsections (1) and (2).\n(4) Subject to subsection (5), the amendments made by this section and Schedule 5 have effect in relation to supervision requirements imposed on a person under section 256AA of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 before the day on which the amendments come into force.\n(5) The amendments do not have effect in relation to a failure, or alleged failure, to comply with such a supervision requirement where the failure or alleged failure began, or is alleged to have begun, before the day on which the amendments come into force.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 34 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 49(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 34 in force at 11.5.2026 by S.I. 2026/402, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/2/section/34",
    "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."
}