Part 3: Powers for dealing with domestic abuse Section 54: Consequential amendments of the Sentencing Code
The Sentencing Act 2020 provides for the new Sentencing Code. The new code is a consolidation of the law governing sentencing procedure in England and Wales. It brings together the procedural provisions which sentencing courts need to rely upon during the sentencing process, and, in doing so, aims to ensure that the law relating to sentencing procedure is readily comprehensible and operates within a clear framework as efficiently as possible. This section makes two consequential amendments to the Sentencing Code as a result of Part 3 of the Act. The first adds a reference to section 37(6) to the list of cases where an order for conditional discharge is not available. The second inserts a signpost to Part 3 of the Act into Part 11 of the Sentencing Code, which deals with behaviour orders (such as a DAPO).