http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/schedule/21/paragraph/31Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012An Act to make provision about legal aid; to make further provision about funding legal services; to make provision about costs and other amounts awarded in civil and criminal proceedings; to make provision about referral fees in connection with the provision of legal services; to make provision about sentencing offenders, including provision about release on licence or otherwise; to make provision about the collection of fines and other sums; to make provision about bail and about remand otherwise than on bail; to make provision about the employment, payment and transfer of persons detained in prisons and other institutions; to make provision about penalty notices for disorderly behaviour and cautions; to make provision about the rehabilitation of offenders; to create new offences of threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises and of causing serious injury by dangerous driving; to create a new offence relating to squatting; to increase penalties for offences relating to scrap metal dealing and to create a new offence relating to payment for scrap metal; and to amend section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-09-29Expert Participation2026-10-01 SCHEDULESSCHEDULE 21Abolition of certain sentences for dangerous offenders and new extended sentences: consequential and transitory provision Part 1 Consequential provision<Emphasis>Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44)</Emphasis>31Omit Schedule 15A (offences specified for the purposes of sections 225(3A) and 227(2A)).