Sentencing Act 2020

PART 1 Specified violent offences

Common law offences

1 Manslaughter.

2 Kidnapping.

3 False imprisonment.

Offences against the Person Act 1861

4 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Offences against the Person Act 1861—

(a) section 4 (soliciting murder);

(b) section 16 (threats to kill);

(c) section 18 (wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm);

(d) section 20 (malicious wounding);

(e) section 21 (attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle in order to commit or assist in committing an indictable offence);

(f) section 22 (using chloroform etc to commit or assist in the committing of any indictable offence);

(g) section 23 (maliciously administering poison etc so as to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm);

(h) section 27 (abandoning children);

(i) section 28 (causing bodily injury by explosives);

(j) section 29 (using explosives etc with intent to do grievous bodily harm);

(k) section 30 (placing explosives with intent to do bodily injury);

(l) section 31 (setting spring guns etc with intent to do grievous bodily harm);

(m) section 32 (endangering the safety of railway passengers);

(n) section 35 (injuring persons by furious driving);

(o) section 37 (assaulting officer preserving wreck);

(p) section 38 (assault with intent to resist arrest);

(q) section 47 (assault occasioning actual bodily harm).

Explosive Substances Act 1883

5 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Explosive Substances Act 1883—

(a) section 2 (causing explosion likely to endanger life or property);

(b) section 3 (attempt to cause explosion, or making or keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property);

(c) section 4 (making or possession of explosive under suspicious circumstances).

Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929

6 An offence under section 1 of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (child destruction).

Children and Young Persons Act 1933

7 An offence under section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (cruelty to children).

Infanticide Act 1938

8 An offence under section 1 of the Infanticide Act 1938 (infanticide).

Firearms Act 1968

9 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Firearms Act 1968—

(a) section 16 (possession of firearm with intent to endanger life);

(b) section 16A (possession of firearm with intent to cause fear of violence);

(c) section 17(1) (use of firearm to resist arrest);

(d) section 17(2) (possession of firearm at time of committing or being arrested for offence specified in Schedule 1 to that Act);

(e) section 18 (carrying a firearm with criminal intent).

Theft Act 1968

10 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Theft Act 1968—

(a) section 8 (robbery or assault with intent to rob);

(b) section 9, where the offence is burglary with intent to—

(i) inflict grievous bodily harm on a person, or

(ii) do unlawful damage to a building or anything in it;

(c) section 10 (aggravated burglary);

(d) section 12A (aggravated vehicle-taking), where the offence involves an accident which caused the death of any person.

Criminal Damage Act 1971

11 (1) An offence of arson under section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971.

(2) An offence under section 1(2) of that Act (destroying or damaging property) other than an offence of arson.

Taking of Hostages Act 1982

12 An offence under section 1 of the Taking of Hostages Act 1982 (hostage-taking).

Aviation Security Act 1982

13 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Aviation Security Act 1982—

(a) section 1 (hijacking);

(b) section 2 (destroying, damaging or endangering safety of aircraft);

(c) section 3 (other acts endangering or likely to endanger safety of aircraft);

(d) section 4 (offences in relation to certain dangerous articles).

Mental Health Act 1983

14 An offence under section 127 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (ill-treatment of patients).

Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985

15 An offence under section 1 of the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 (prohibition of female circumcision).

Public Order Act 1986

16 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Public Order Act 1986—

(a) section 1 (riot);

(b) section 2 (violent disorder);

(c) section 3 (affray).

Criminal Justice Act 1988

17 An offence under section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (torture).

Road Traffic Act 1988

18 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1988—

(a) section 1 (causing death by dangerous driving);

(b) section 3ZC (causing death by driving: disqualified drivers);

(c) section 3A (causing death by careless driving when under influence of drink or drugs).

Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990

19 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990—

(a) section 1 (endangering safety at aerodromes);

(b) section 9 (hijacking of ships);

(c) section 10 (seizing or exercising control of fixed platforms);

(d) section 11 (destroying fixed platforms or endangering their safety);

(e) section 12 (other acts endangering or likely to endanger safe navigation);

(f) section 13 (offences involving threats).

Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994

20 An offence under Part 2 of the Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/570) (offences relating to Channel Tunnel trains and the tunnel system).

Protection from Harassment Act 1997

21 An offence under section 4 or 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (putting people in fear of violence and stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress).

Crime and Disorder Act 1998

22 (1) An offence under section 29 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (racially or religiously aggravated assaults).

(2) An offence falling within section 31(1)(a) or (b) of that Act (racially or religiously aggravated offences under section 4 or 4A of the Public Order Act 1986).

International Criminal Court Act 2001

23 An offence under section 51 or 52 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and related offences), other than one involving murder.

Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003

24 An offence under any of the following provisions of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003—

(a) section 1 (female genital mutilation);

(b) section 2 (assisting a girl to mutilate her own genitalia);

(c) section 3 (assisting a non-UK person to mutilate overseas a girl’s genitalia).

Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004

25 An offence under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to die or suffer serious physical harm).

Modern Slavery Act 2015

26 (1) An offence under section 1 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour).

(2) An offence under section 2 of that Act (human trafficking) which is not within Part 2 of this Schedule.

Inchoate offences

27 An inchoate offence (see section 398) in relation to an offence specified in any of the preceding paragraphs of this Part of this Schedule.

28 An inchoate offence in relation to murder.