Sentencing Act 2026
An Act to make provision about the sentencing, release and management after sentencing of offenders; to make provision about bail; to make provision about the removal from the United Kingdom of foreign criminals; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Sections
Part 1 – Sentencing
Section 1 Sentencing Act 2026 – Presumption of suspended sentence order for sentences of 12 months or less
Section 2 Sentencing Act 2026 – Custodial sentences that may be suspended
Section 3 Sentencing Act 2026 – Income reduction orders
Section 4 Sentencing Act 2026 – Purposes of sentencing
Section 5 Sentencing Act 2026 – Date to which passing of sentence may be deferred
Section 6 Sentencing Act 2026 – Finding of domestic abuse
Section 7 Sentencing Act 2026 – Special custodial sentence for certain offenders of particular concern: England and Wales
Section 8 Sentencing Act 2026 – Sentence with fixed licence period: Scotland
Section 9 Sentencing Act 2026 – Sentence with fixed licence period: Northern Ireland
Section 10 Sentencing Act 2026 – Corresponding provision under service law
Section 11 Sentencing Act 2026 – Whole life order: murder of police, prison or probation officer
Section 12 Sentencing Act 2026 – Removal of requirement to specify maximum number of days
Section 13 Sentencing Act 2026 – Rehabilitation activity requirement renamed probation requirement
Section 14 Sentencing Act 2026 – Driving prohibition requirement
Section 15 Sentencing Act 2026 – Public event attendance prohibition requirement
Section 16 Sentencing Act 2026 – Drinking establishment entry prohibition requirement
Section 17 Sentencing Act 2026 – Restriction zone requirement
Section 18 Sentencing Act 2026 – Power to add or alter requirements
Section 19 Sentencing Act 2026 – Sentencing Council business plan
Section 20 Sentencing Act 2026 – Sentencing guidelines
Section 21 Sentencing Act 2026 – Annual report relating to prison capacity
Section 22 Sentencing Act 2026 – Provision of transcripts of sentencing remarks to victims
Part 2 – Management of offenders after sentencing
Section 23 Sentencing Act 2026 – Release
Section 24 Sentencing Act 2026 – Release: consequential amendments relating to driving disqualification
Section 25 Sentencing Act 2026 – Release on licence of certain violent or sexual offenders: service offences
Section 26 Sentencing Act 2026 – Limitation of provisions about home detention curfew
Section 27 Sentencing Act 2026 – Licence conditions
Section 28 Sentencing Act 2026 – Licence conditions: offenders sentenced under repealed armed forces legislation
Section 29 Sentencing Act 2026 – Power to make provision about recall to prison
Section 30 Sentencing Act 2026 – Further release after recall: introductory
Section 31 Sentencing Act 2026 – Further release after recall: relevant young offenders suitable for automatic release
Section 32 Sentencing Act 2026 – Further release after recall: other offenders eligible for automatic release
Section 33 Sentencing Act 2026 – Further release after recall: supplementary
Section 34 Sentencing Act 2026 – Repeal of provisions relating to supervision after end of sentence
Section 35 Sentencing Act 2026 – Early removal of prisoners liable to removal from United Kingdom
Section 36 Sentencing Act 2026 – Removal of maximum period for unpaid work requirement
Section 37 Sentencing Act 2026 – Number of hours of work required by unpaid work requirement
Section 38 Sentencing Act 2026 – Termination of community order
Section 39 Sentencing Act 2026 – Termination of supervision period of suspended sentence order
Section 40 Sentencing Act 2026 – Rules about the proceedings of the Parole Board
Section 41 Sentencing Act 2026 – Application of provisions about release etc. to certain repatriated prisoners
Section 42 Sentencing Act 2026 – Imprisonment or detention for public protection: termination of licences
Section 43 Sentencing Act 2026 – Powers of High Court on referral
Section 44 Sentencing Act 2026 – Amendments to Bail Act 1976
Section 45 Sentencing Act 2026 – Deportation of foreign criminals
Section 46 Sentencing Act 2026 – Power to make consequential provision
Section 47 Sentencing Act 2026 – Power to state effect in Sentencing Act 2020 of commencement of amendments made by this Act
Section 48 Sentencing Act 2026 – Extent
Section 49 Sentencing Act 2026 – Commencement
Section 50 Sentencing Act 2026 – Short title
Schedule (Not Available Now)
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