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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Legal aid: consequential amendments

Part 1Amendments

Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c. 6)

53(1)Section 83(3) (exception to restriction on imposition of custodial sentence on persons not legally represented) is amended as follows.

(2)In paragraph (a)—

(a)for the words from the beginning to “but the right” substitute “representation was made available to him for the purposes of the proceedings under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 but”, and

(b)for “to be granted such a right” substitute “for such representation”.

(3)In paragraph (aa) for “to be granted a right to it” substitute “for such representation”.