Policy background Custodial Sentences Minor amendments to do with weapons-related offences
Section 147 streamlines the release point for two specific (and very rarely charged) offences relating to the use of nuclear material and weapons-related acts overseas, to ensure where the offender is sentenced to a standard determinate sentence of 7 years or more they will be automatically released after two-thirds of their sentence. This is necessary as the offences, though serious, are not inherently terroristic offences and ought properly to be located in Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the CJA 2003 (specified violent offences).