C2C6Part 12Sentencing

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pt. 12 modified (28.3.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 31.10.2009) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 183(4), 383 (as amended (1.4.2008) by The Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912), art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 23(2)(b)); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4

C6

Pt. 12 (ss. 142-305) modified (4.4.2005) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Sentencing) (Transitory Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/643), art. 3 (as amended (E.W.) (3.12.2012) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Consequential and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2824), regs. 1, 3(1) (with reg. 3(2)) and as amended (1.12.2020 immediately before the consolidation date (see 2020 c. 9, ss. 3, 5(2)(3) and 2020 c. 17, ss. 2, 416)) by Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Act 2020 (c. 9), s. 5(2)(3), Sch. 2 para. 139; S.I. 2012/1236, reg. 2)

C1C3C5C4C7Chapter 6F2 Release, licencesF8, supervision and recall

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Amendments (Textual)
F8

Word in Pt. 12 Ch. 6 heading inserted (1.2.2015) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 3 para. 15 (with Sch. 7 para. 2); S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(u)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Pt. 12 Ch. 6 applied to any person serving a sentence for an offence committed before 4 April 2005 (whenever that sentence was or is imposed) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), ss. 121(1), 151(1); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(d)

Supplemental

I1268Interpretation of Chapter 6

F51

In this Chapter —

  • “the 1997 Act” means the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c. 43);

  • “the Board” means the Parole Board;

  • F6“fixed-term prisoner” and “fixed-term sentence” have the meaning given by section 237(1) F1(as extended by section 237(1B));

  • F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F7“offender subject to supervision under this Chapter” means a person who is subject to supervision requirements under section 256AA or 256B;

  • “prison” and “prisoner” are to be read in accordance with section 237(2);

  • F7“supervision default order” means an order described in section 256AC(4)(c), whether made under that provision or under paragraph 9 of Schedule 19A;

  • F7“the supervision period”, in relation to an offender subject to supervision under this Chapter, has the meaning given in section 256AA or 256B (as appropriate);

  • F7“the supervisor”—

    1. (a)

      in relation to an offender subject to supervision requirements under section 256AA, has the meaning given in that section, and

    2. (b)

      in relation to an offender subject to supervision requirements under section 256B, means the person who provides supervision under that section;

  • F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F91A

In this Chapter, “the requisite custodial period” means F10(except where it has the meaning given by section 247A(8)) —

a

in relation to a person serving an extended sentence imposed under section 226A or 226B F11or under section 254, 266 or 279 of the Sentencing Code, the requisite custodial period for the purposes of section 246A;

b

in relation to a person serving an extended sentence imposed under section 227 or 228, the requisite custodial period for the purposes of section 247;

c

in relation to a person serving a sentence imposed under section 236A F12or under section 265 or 278 of the Sentencing Code, the requisite custodial period for the purposes of section 244A;

F13ca

in relation to a prisoner whose case has been referred to the Parole Board under section 244ZB, the requisite custodial period for the purposes of section 244ZC;

d

in relation to any other fixed-term prisoner, the requisite custodial period for the purposes of section 243A F14, 244 or 244ZA (as appropriate).

F42

For the purposes of sections 243A(1A), 256AA(1), 256B(1A) and 264B(1), where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of 2 or more days, or at some time during a period of 2 or more days, it must be taken to have been committed on the last of those days.