Section 320: Determination of day when offence committed

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

Part 10: Custodial sentences — CHAPTER 7: Minimum sentences for particular offences

Where an offence is found to have been committed—

over a period of 2 or more days, or
at some time during a period of 2 or more days,

it is to be taken for the purposes of sections 311, 312, 313, 314 and 315 to have been committed on the last of those days.

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