Schedules Schedule 2: Sentencing Consolidation: Pre-Consolidation Amendments Categories (a) to (d)
A significant proportion of the pre-consolidation amendments in this Schedule fall into categories (a) to (d): being of clarificatory effect; correcting errors in existing legislation; omitting unnecessary provisions or wording; or simplifying, streamlining or making more consistent sentencing procedure.
	Examples of the sort of change made by category (a) are those amendments which clarify that notices issued by the Secretary of State may be withdrawn (see, for example, paragraphs 85 or 110(12)); or those amendments which replace references to remitting a "case" (sending for trial), with references to remitting an "offender" (see, for example, paragraph 14(3)). These are generally amendments that are required to ensure consistency in the Code where replicating differing wording in a single Act could introduce a doubt that the provisions are intended to have differing effects.
	An example of category (b) amendments are those replacing references to the Education and Library Board (abolished on 12 December 2014 by section 3 of the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014) with references to its replacement, the Education Authority (see, for example, paragraph 112(6)).
	An example of category (c) are those amendments omitting defunct references to local probation boards, which were abolished by section 11 of the Offender Management Act 2007 on 1 March 2008 (see, for example, paragraphs 24(5) or 110(3)).
	Finally, examples of category (d) are the amendments transferring the duty to provide copies of a youth rehabilitation order on the breach of such an order from the proper officer of the court to the court itself, for consistency with the provisions relating to the making of such an order (see, for example, paragraph 111(18)); or the amendments aligning mental health treatment requirements available as part of a community order or a suspended sentence order with their equivalent under a youth rehabilitation order, expressly allowing such requirements to specify different kinds of treatment for different periods (see, for example, paragraph 79(2)).
	Most of the amendments made to existing legislation by the pre-consolidation amendments in categories (a) to (d) are of this technical nature. Others in these categories might appear to make more significant changes. The following paragraphs (54 - 70) identify and explain these changes.