Part 1: Sentencing of terrorist offenders Section 8: Reduction in appropriate custodial term for guilty pleas: England and Wales
Section 8 provides the court may reduce the custodial term specified in section 2 from the 14-year minimum, to a maximum reduction to 80 per cent, where the offender pleads guilty. Section 8 inserts a new subsection (2A) into section 73 of the Sentencing Code which provides that if the court imposes a serious terrorism sentence of detention in a young offender institution, or a serious terrorism sentence of imprisonment, nothing in the new subsection 268C(2) or 282C(2) prevents the court, after taking into account any matter referred to in subsection (2) of Section 73 of the Sentencing Code, from imposing the appropriate custodial term of any length not less than 80 per cent of the term otherwise required.