SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 22 Amendments of the Sentencing Code and related amendments of other legislation

PART 5 Custodial sentences

Increase in magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment

24 (1) Section 224 (general limit on magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for “6 months” substitute “12 months”.

(3) In subsection (2), for “6 months” substitute “12 months”.