Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, Paragraph 5 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 01 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
5(1)Section 227A (offences of threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1A)—
(a)for “particular circumstances” substitute “exceptional circumstances”, and
(b)for paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b)justify not doing so.”
(3)Sub-paragraph (2) has effect only if this Schedule comes into force before the coming into force of paragraph 16(a) of Schedule 26 to the Sentencing Act 2020 (which omits subsection (1A) of section 227A of the Armed Forces Act 2006).
(4)In subsection (2)—
(a)for “particular circumstances” substitute “exceptional circumstances”, and
(b)for paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b)justify not doing so.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 12 para. 5 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(k)
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