Sentencing Act 2026
Sentencing Act 2026 (2026 c. 2)
- Sentencing Act 2026 (2026 c. 2)
- Part 1 Sentencing
- Suspended sentences
- 1 Presumption of suspended sentence order for sentences of 12 months or less
- 2 Custodial sentences that may be suspended
- Income reduction orders
- 3 Income reduction orders
- Purposes of sentencing
- 4 Purposes of sentencing
- Deferment of sentence
- 5 Date to which passing of sentence may be deferred
- Finding of domestic abuse
- 6 Finding of domestic abuse
- Offenders of particular concern
- 7 Special custodial sentence for certain offenders of particular concern: England and Wales
- 8 Sentence with fixed licence period: Scotland
- 9 Sentence with fixed licence period: Northern Ireland
- 10 Corresponding provision under service law
- Whole life order: murder of police, prison or probation officer
- 11 Whole life order: murder of police, prison or probation officer
- Rehabilitation activity requirement
- 12 Removal of requirement to specify maximum number of days
- 13 Rehabilitation activity requirement renamed probation requirement
- New community order requirements and community requirements
- 14 Driving prohibition requirement
- 15 Public event attendance prohibition requirement
- 16 Drinking establishment entry prohibition requirement
- 17 Restriction zone requirement
- 18 Power to add or alter requirements
- Sentencing Council for England and Wales
- 19 Sentencing Council business plan
- 20 Sentencing guidelines
- Prison capacity report
- 21 Annual report relating to prison capacity
- Court transcripts
- 22 Provision of transcripts of sentencing remarks to victims
- Part 2 Management of offenders after sentencing
- Release
- 23 Release
- 24 Release: consequential amendments relating to driving disqualification
- 25 Release on licence of certain violent or sexual offenders: service offences
- 26 Limitation of provisions about home detention curfew
- Licences
- 27 Licence conditions
- 28 Licence conditions: offenders sentenced under repealed armed forces legislation
- Recall and further release
- 29 Power to make provision about recall to prison
- 30 Further release after recall: introductory
- 31 Further release after recall: relevant young offenders suitable for automatic release
- 32 Further release after recall: other offenders eligible for automatic release
- 33 Further release after recall: supplementary
- Removal of requirement for supervision after sentence
- 34 Repeal of provisions relating to supervision after end of sentence
- Early removal of prisoners liable to removal from the United Kingdom
- 35 Early removal of prisoners liable to removal from United Kingdom
- Community order requirements and community requirements
- 36 Removal of maximum period for unpaid work requirement
- 37 Number of hours of work required by unpaid work requirement
- 38 Termination of community order
- 39 Termination of supervision period of suspended sentence order
- Parole Board rules
- 40 Rules about the proceedings of the Parole Board
- Repatriated prisoners
- 41 Application of provisions about release etc to certain repatriated prisoners
- Sentences of imprisonment or detention for public protection
- 42 Imprisonment or detention for public protection: termination of licences
- 43 Powers of High Court on referral
- Part 3 Bail
- 44 Amendments to Bail Act 1976
- Part 4 Foreign criminals
- 45 Deportation of foreign criminals
- Part 5 General
- 46 Power to make consequential provision
- 47 Power to state effect in Sentencing Act 2020 of commencement of amendments made by this Act
- 48 Extent
- 49 Commencement
- 50 Short title
- Schedules
- Schedule 1 Presumption of suspended sentence order: consequential provision
- Firearms Act 1968
- Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
- Armed Forces Act 2006
- Sentencing Act 2020
- Schedule 2 Sentence with fixed licence period in Scotland or Northern Ireland: consequential provision
- Part 1 Scotland
- Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
- Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989
- Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993
- Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984
- Part 2 Northern Ireland
- Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008
- Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984
- Schedule 3 Corresponding provision about sentencing under service law: sentences for offenders of particular concern
- Schedule 4 Offences where offender not eligible for automatic release under section 255BA after recall
- Schedule 5 Repeal of provisions relating to supervision after end of sentence: consequential provision
- Part 1 Amendments consequential on repeals made by section 34
- Crime (Sentences) Act 1997
- Crime and Disorder Act 1998
- Criminal Justice Act 2003
- Offender Management Act 2007
- Sentencing Code
- Part 2 Repeal of provision which inserts or amends provision repealed by section 34 or Part 1 of this Schedule
- Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014
- Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
- Sentencing Act 2020
- Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020
- Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
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