The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023

Amendment of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

25.—(1) The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 143(6) for the words from ““12 months” to “6 months” substitute ““the general limit in a magistrates’ court” is to be read as “6 months”.