Section 6: Consequential amendments relating to transitional cases: England and Wales
Section 6 amends the transitional provisions of Schedule 20B to the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Schedule 20B preserves applicable release provisions for those sentences which have been repealed, but still apply to prisoners serving their sentences.
	Paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 20B save the Parole Board discretionary release point at halfway and provide for automatic release at the two-thirds point of the sentence. The amendments in subsections (2) and (3) of section 6 carve out those terrorist prisoners now subject to release under section 247A so that paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 20B no longer apply to those prisoners and they will be released in accordance with the new section 247A.
	Subsection (2)(b) reframes the terms used in extended sentences to describe the custodial part of the sentence to apply for this cohort of offenders consistently with the rest of section 247A.
	Subsections (4) and (5) preserve the current licence arrangements for those previously subject to the release arrangements of paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 20B, but who now will be released under section 247A and possibly at a point after the licence would have ended, so that the licence expires at the three-quarter point, as now.
	Subsection (6) ensures that for offenders serving an extended sentence under section 85 of the Powers of the Criminal Courts Sentencing Act 2000, the full extended licence period will be served if a prisoner is released under section 247A after the three-quarter point of the sentence.