Section 223: Two year limit on imprisonment for statutory offence if no maximum specified

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Sentencing Act 2020
- Section 222: Meaning of “custodial sentence”
- Section 224: General limit on magistrates' court's power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution

Part 10: Custodial sentences — CHAPTER 1: Custody: general provisions

Where—

a person is convicted on indictment of an offence under any enactment which is punishable with imprisonment, and

no enactment—

limits the sentence to a specified term, or

expresses it to extend to imprisonment for life,

the person is liable to imprisonment for not more than 2 years.

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