Schedules Schedule 2: Sentencing Consolidation: Pre-Consolidation Amendments
This Schedule makes a number of pre-consolidation amendments to existing legislation relating to sentencing for the purposes of enabling the enactment of the consolidation of sentencing law: the Sentencing Code. The pre-consolidation amendments are limited to those which facilitate, or are otherwise desirable in connection with, the consolidation. Pre-consolidation amendments are made to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 and other primary and secondary legislation relating to sentencing, including the Armed Forces Act 2006.
	These pre-consolidation amendments will only come into force immediately before the consolidation of sentencing legislation (the Code) comes into force.
	The pre-consolidation amendments are principally organised in this Schedule by reference to the legislation they amend. They can broadly be categorised as:
clarifying the legislation or removing an element of ambiguity from it;
remedying a missed consequential provision in earlier legislation;
repealing or omitting provisions in existing legislation that are either spent or now considered unnecessary to repeat;
simplifying, streamlining, or making more consistent sentencing procedure;
ensuring consistency in re-sentencing or committal powers;
ensuring consistency in relation to the powers of different courts to provide for when sentences or particular requirements of sentences are to take effect; and
giving effect to the "clean sweep" in relation to future amendments.
	Appendix 2 to Volume I of the Law Commission’s Report on the Sentencing Code (22 November 2018, Law Com No 382, HC 1724) 1 explains the effect and purpose of every pre-consolidation amendment contained in Schedule 2 to the draft Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Act as published in Volume II of that report. A number of amendments have been made to the Act since its initial publication in November 2018.