THIRD GROUP OF PARTSDisposals

PART 10Custodial sentences

C1CHAPTER 5Suspended sentences

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Pt. 10 Ch. 5 applied (with modifications) by 2006 s. 52, ss. 200-207, Sch. 7 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 25 paras. 19-26 (with s. 416(7), Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)

What a suspended sentence order is

I1289Suspended sentence to be treated generally as sentence of imprisonment etc

1

A suspended sentence which has not taken effect under paragraph 13 of Schedule 16 is to be treated as—

a

a sentence of imprisonment, or

b

as the case may be, a sentence of detention in a young offender institution,

for the purposes of all enactments and instruments made under enactments.

2

Subsection (1) is subject to any provision to the contrary contained in—

a

the Criminal Justice Act 1967,

b

any enactment passed or instrument made under any enactment after 31 December 1967.