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12(1)The Sentencing Act 2020 is amended as follows.E+W
(2)In section 67 (assaults on emergency workers), in subsection (3), after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa)an offence under section 75A of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (strangulation or suffocation);”.
(3)In Part 1 of Schedule 18 (violent offences for which extended sentence of imprisonment available), after paragraph 25 insert—
“Serious Crime Act 2015E+W
25AAn offence under section 75A of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (strangulation or suffocation).”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 12 in force at 7.6.2022 by S.I. 2022/553, regs. 1(2), 3(b)