Summary Part 3: Sentencing and punishment of offenders Chapter 5: Dangerous offenders
44.Chapter 5 repeals provisions in the 1991 Act creating indeterminate sentences for public protection and extended sentences and replaces them with provisions for life sentences to be imposed on conviction for a second serious offence and new provision for extended sentences. Equivalent provision is made for service law. The Chapter also creates a new power for the Secretary of State to amend the Parole Board release test for prisoners serving Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (“IPP”), extended sentence prisoners and determinate sentence prisoners subject to transitional provisions.