Secondary Legislation under Sentencing Act 2020

Showing 14 Statutory Instruments linked to this bill.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Prison Sanctions) Regulations 2026

Laid before Parliament: 22 October 2026
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text These Regulations specify the prison sanctions available to be imposed by judges in Crown Courts for contempt of court by an offender following a breach of an order to attend a sentencing hearing. They reflect the punishments that a governor can impose for an offence against discipline as mentioned in rule 55(1)(b), (e), (j) and (k) of the Prison Rules 1999 (S.I. 1999/728) and rule 60(1)(b) and (f) of the Young Offender Institution Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/3371). These Regulations also provide for the governor to decide, in certain circumstances, not to implement, or to otherwise delay, pause or reduce the period of, any prison sanction imposed under a prison sanctions order.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2026

Reference: 2026 No. 993
Laid before Parliament: 9 September 2026
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text The Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Reference: 2025 No. 1207
Laid before Parliament: 20 November 2025
Procedure: Made negative
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Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases to be described in regulations. The Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023 (the “2023 Regulations”) and the Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024 (the “2024 Regulations”) describe certain such cases (“specified cases”).

Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025

Laid before Parliament: 26 June 2025
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend paragraph 9 of Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code. They create two additional statutory aggravating factors in the determination of the minimum term in relation to mandatory life sentences for murder.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 1220
Laid before Parliament: 28 November 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases to be described in regulations. The Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023 (the “2023 Regulations”) describes certain such cases (“specified cases”).

Sentencing Act 2020 (Magistrates' Court Sentencing Powers) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 1067
Laid before Parliament: 28 October 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 654
Laid before Parliament: 17 May 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2023

Laid before Parliament: 23 October 2023
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Act 2020. They create two additional statutory aggravating factors, and one additional statutory mitigating factor, in the determination of the minimum term in relation to mandatory life sentences for murder.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 559
Laid before Parliament: 22 May 2023
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Magistrates' Court Sentencing Powers) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 298
Laid before Parliament: 9 March 2023
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of any one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Serious Violence Reduction Orders: Retention and Disposal of Seized Items) Regulations 2022

Reference: 2022 No. 1071
Laid before Parliament: 24 October 2022
Procedure: Made negative
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Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text Section 342E of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) (“the Sentencing Code”) provides constables with a power to search a person subject to a Serious Violence Reduction Order to ascertain if they have a bladed article or offensive weapon with them. Section 342E(4) enables a constable to seize anything found in the course of the search which the constable reasonably suspects to be a bladed article or an offensive weapon.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Surcharge) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Reference: 2022 No. 584
Laid before Parliament: 26 May 2022
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text Section 43 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c.17) requires a court, when dealing with a person for one or more offences, to order that person to pay a surcharge. The amount of the surcharge that is payable in particular circumstances is set out in the Schedule to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) (Order) 2012 (S.I. 2012/1696) (“the 2012 Order”). Regulation 2 of these Regulations substitutes the Schedule to the 2012 Order to provide for an increase in those amounts and reflects the changes made by the Sentencing Act 2020.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 1067
Laid before Parliament: 28 October 2024
Procedure: Made negative
Parliament Page Legislation Text
Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.

Sentencing Act 2020 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 298
Laid before Parliament: 9 March 2023
Procedure: Made negative
Parliament Page Legislation Text
Enabling Acts
Sentencing Act 2020
SI explanatory text Section 224 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) specifies the general limit on a magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution in respect of any one offence. Section 224(1A)(b) provides for the “applicable limit” that may be imposed in respect of triable either way offences. Paragraph 14A of Schedule 23 to that Act gives the Secretary of State powers to alter that applicable limit in specified ways, by Regulations.