Schedules Schedule 2: Criminal Procedure: consequential and related amendments Amendments in connection with Section 13
Paragraph 16 amends section 133(1) and (2) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 to ensure that provision about consecutive sentences is read in light of the new general limit in a magistrates’ court.
	Paragraphs 17 and 18 amend section 141(5A) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and section 113(10A) of the Scotland Act 1998, both of which contain powers to create offences. The amendments provide that any offences created using those powers should carry a maximum term on summary conviction of the general limit in a magistrates’ court.
	Paragraph 19 (1) and (2) amends section 155(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to ensure that this power to change the limit on consecutive sentences set out in section 133(1) and (2) is read in light of the general limit in a magistrates’ court. Paragraph 19 (3) amends section 283 of the Criminal Justice Act to omit the power to create new offences, which is now contained within subsections (8) and (9) of Section 13)
	Paragraph 20 omits paragraph 24 of Schedule 22 to the Sentencing Act 2020 and replaces it with paragraph 24A, namely a power to increase the limit on magistrates’ sentencing powers for summary offences only
	Paragraph 21 addresses an anomaly in Section 42 of the Gambling Act 2005. It will change the maximum penalty upon summary conviction for the triable either-way offence of Cheating, from 51 weeks, to "the general limit in a magistrates’ court".