A Bill to give effect to Law Commission recommendations relating to commencement of enactments relating to sentencing law and to make provision for pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing law
House of Lords
8 November 2019
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This Lords Bill aims to implement Law Commission recommendations about when sentencing rules start and to make pre-consolidation amendments to sentencing law. In Committee, peers agreed a set of changes mostly designed to embed the minimum sentence rules for corrosive substance offences (from the Offensive Weapons Act 2019) into a wide range of sentencing provisions, and to update how those rules apply across different contexts and jurisdictions, including youth cases and service-law scenarios.
The bill is at the Report Stage in the Lords after Committee Stage. A substantial set of amendments (24 in total) were proposed and agreed in Committee, mainly driven by Lord Keen of Elie (Conservative), centred on aligning sentencing provisions with the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 and extending related rules across contexts.
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The Bill was carried over to the next session, following a decision on 5 September 2019. This means the Bill can continue its progress through Parliament from the start of the current session. Formal second reading, Special Public Bill Committee and report stages for the current session took place without debate on 16 October.
Third reading, a chance to 'tidy up' the bill and make changes, is yet to be scheduled.
The 2017-19 Parliament dissolved at the end of the 2019 Session and this Bill will make no further progress
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