17After subsection (2) of section 48 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (reduction in sentences for guilty pleas) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(3)In the case of an offence the sentence for which falls to be imposed under subsection (2) of section 3 or 4 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, nothing in that subsection shall prevent the court, after taking into account any matter referred to in subsection (1) above, from imposing any sentence which is not less than 80 per cent of that specified in that subsection.”