THIRD GROUP OF PARTSDisposals
PART 10Custodial sentences
CHAPTER 1Custody: general provisions
General limits on powers to impose custodial sentences
223Two year limit on imprisonment for statutory offence if no maximum specified
Where—
(a)
a person is convicted on indictment of an offence under any enactment which is punishable with imprisonment, and
(b)
no enactment—
(i)
limits the sentence to a specified term, or
(ii)
expresses it to extend to imprisonment for life,
the person is liable to imprisonment for not more than 2 years.