Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) E+W

2 (1) Section 240ZA (time remanded in custody to count as time served: terms of imprisonment and detention) is amended as follows.

(2) In the heading, for “and detention” substitute “or detention and detention and training orders”.

(3) After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) This section also applies where—

(a) a court, on or after the day on which Schedule 16 to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 came into force, makes a detention and training order in respect of an offender for an offence, and

(b) the offender concerned has been remanded in custody in connection with the offence or a related offence.

(1B) In this section any reference to a “sentence”, in relation to an offender, is to—

(a) a term of imprisonment being served by the offender as mentioned in subsection (1)(a), or

(b) a detention and training order made in respect of the offender as mentioned in subsection (1A)(a).”

(4) In subsection (2), for “that purpose” substitute “the purposes of subsection (1)(b) or (1A)(b)”.

(5) For subsection (9) substitute—

“(8A) Subsection (9) applies in relation to an offender who is sentenced to two or more consecutive sentences or sentences which are wholly or partly concurrent if—

(a) the sentences were imposed on the same occasion, or

(b) where they were imposed on different occasions, the offender has not been released during the period beginning with the first and ending with the last of those occasions.

(9) For the purposes of subsections (3) and (5), the sentences are to be treated as a single sentence.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 16 para. 2 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(t)