Sentencing Act 2020

416 Commencement

(1) This Act comes into force on a date specified by the Secretary of State by regulations (referred to in this Act as “the commencement date”).

(2) Subsections (4) to (6) of section 407 do not apply to the power conferred by subsection (1).

(3) The Sentencing Code has effect in accordance with section 2.

(4) Subsection (1) is subject to—

(a) section 417 (commencement of amendments of the Code and certain consequential amendments of other Acts),

(b) section 418 (commencement of certain amendments of the Armed Forces Act 2006),

(c) subsection (5), and

(d) subsection (9) (commencement of repeal postponed until repeal of connected provisions comes into force).

(5) Regulations under this Act may be made before the commencement date, but may not—

(a) come into force before that date, or

(b) bring a provision into force before that date.

(6) An amendment, repeal or revocation made by Schedule 24 (consequential amendments) has effect in accordance with Part 7 of that Schedule.

(7) An amendment, repeal or revocation made by Schedule 25 (armed forces) or Schedule 28 or 29 (repeals and revocations), so far as it has effect—

(a) in relation to dealing with a person for an offence, or

(b) in relation to a sentence passed for an offence,

has effect only where the person is convicted of the offence on or after the commencement date.

(8) But subsection (7) does not apply to the repeal by Schedule 28 of the following provisions—

(a) paragraphs 6, 36, 37, 47, 85, 86, 88, 123(2), 136, 186(2), 197(b), 200 and 205 of Schedule 9 to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000;

(b) paragraphs 21(3), 26 and 64(6) of Schedule 32 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003;

(c) paragraph 100 of Schedule 4 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.

(9) The repeal in Schedule 28 relating to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, so far as it relates to section 159 of that Act (execution of process between England and Wales and Scotland) as it applies to process issued under Schedule 5 to that Act (breach of attendance centre order), comes into force at the same time as the repeal of that Schedule by section 6(1) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.