Sentencing Act 2020

Amendments to Part 10 (Court Martial decisions: appeal and review)

70 In section 273 (review of unduly lenient sentence by Court Martial Appeal Court)—

(a) in subsection (6)(b), for the words from “section 224A” to the end substitute “—

(i) section 273(3) or 283(3) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 218A(1B) or (2) (life sentence for second listed offence);

(ii) section 274(3) or 285(3) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 219(1A) or (2) (life sentence for certain dangerous offenders aged 18 or over);

(iii) section 258(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 221(2) (life sentence for certain dangerous offenders aged under 18);

(iv) section 313(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 225(2) (third drug trafficking offence);

(v) section 314(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 226(2) (third domestic burglary);

(vi) section 311(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 227(2) (firearms offences); or

(vii) section 227A(1A) or (2) (threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises);”;

(b) in subsection (7), for “an order specified in subsection (7A)” substitute “a minimum term order under section 321 of the Sentencing Code”;

(c) omit subsection (7A).