SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 32Amendments relating to sentencing

Part 1General

Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43)

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The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 is amended as follows.

134

In section 1 (purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Act), in subsection (2)—

(a)

in paragraph (a), after “community orders” there is inserted “ (as defined by section 177 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) ”, and

(b)

after paragraph (c) there is inserted—

“(d)

giving effect to suspended sentence orders (as defined by section 189 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003).”

135

In section 42 (interpretation of Part 2), in subsection (2)(a), for “section 119 of the Powers of Criminal Court (Sentencing) Act 2000” there is substituted “ paragraph 8(2)(a) or (b) of Schedule 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 ”.

136

(1)

Section 62 (release on licence etc: conditions as to monitoring) is amended as follows.

(2)

For subsection (3) there is substituted—

“(3)

In relation to a prisoner released under section 246 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (power to release prisoners on licence before required to do so), the monitoring referred to in subsection (2)(a) does not include the monitoring of his compliance with conditions imposed under section 253 of that Act (curfew condition).”

(3)

In subsection (5) after paragraph (e) there is inserted“, and

(f)

a sentence of detention under section 226 or 228 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003”.

137

In section 69 (duties of local probation boards in connection with victims of certain offences), in subsection (8), for paragraph (a) there is substituted—

“(a)

murder or an offence specified in Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003,”.

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