Policy paper

Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill

The Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill paves the way for the introduction of the Sentencing Code – a consolidation of sentencing procedure.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 23 May 2019
• Last updated: 22 January 2020 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill

https://services.parliament.uk/Bills/2017-19/sentencingpreconsolidationamendments.html

Fact sheet

PDF, 255 KB, 2 pages

Equalities statement

PDF, 125 KB, 3 pages

Impact assessment

PDF, 472 KB, 5 pages

European Convention on Human Rights Memorandum

PDF, 497 KB, 3 pages

Government response to Law Commission report on the Sentencing Code

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-law-commission-report-on-the-sentencing-code

Details

The Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill makes largely technical amendments to existing sentencing legislation to facilitate the consolidation of sentencing procedure law via the Law Commissions ‘Sentencing Code’. It:

• removes historic layers of legislation and gives effect to the ‘clean sweep’ of sentencing legislation
• makes changes to the existing legislation (pre-consolidation amendments) which are required, or otherwise desirable, to enable the consolidation to take place

Published 23 May 2019
Last updated 22 January 2020 + show all updates

1. 22 January 2020

   Documents updated.

2. 23 May 2019

   First published.