Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Act 2020

134 (1) The Secretary of State may, in connection with the coming into force of an uncommenced or amending provision, by regulations made by statutory instrument amend a relevant enactment to secure that—

(a) the enactment specifies the purposes for which, or the cases in which, the provision has effect;

(b) so far as practicable, any relevant enactment which, as a result of the provision, is to continue to have effect only for particular purposes or in particular cases remains in place instead of having effect by virtue of transitional, transitory or saving provision.

(2) The regulations may make consequential amendments to any enactment.

(3) Subsections (4) and (5) of section 104 of the Deregulation Act 2015 (restrictions on power to spell out dates described in legislation) apply to regulations under this paragraph as they apply to an order under that section.

(4) In this paragraph—

• “amending provision” means an amendment or repeal of a relevant enactment, made under a power conferred by such an enactment;

• “relevant enactment” means an enactment that is to be repealed or revoked by, and restated in, the sentencing consolidation;

• “uncommenced provision” means a relevant enactment, to the extent that it is not in force immediately before the consolidation date.