5SIn section 204 (restrictions on passing sentence of imprisonment or detention)—
(a)in each of subsections (1) and (2), after “United Kingdom” insert “ or in another member State of the European Union ”, and
(b)after subsection (4) insert—
“(4A)The court shall, for the purpose of determining whether a person has been previously sentenced to imprisonment or detention by a court in a member State of the European Union other than the United Kingdom—
(a)disregard any previous sentence of imprisonment which, being the equivalent of a suspended sentence, has not taken effect;
(b)construe detention as meaning an equivalent sentence to any of those mentioned in subsection (4)(b).
(4B)Any issue of equivalence arising in pursuance of subsection (4A) is for the court to determine.”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 4 para. 5 in force at 13.12.2010 by S.S.I. 2010/413, art. 2, Sch. (with Sch.)