SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Consequential amendments relating to minimum sentences

Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)

1

In section 24(1B) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (exceptions to summary trial for indictable offences of persons aged under 18), omit the “ or ” at the end of paragraph (a) and, at the end of paragraph (b), insert

or

c

section 29(3) of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (minimum sentences in certain cases of using someone to mind a weapon) would apply if he were convicted of the offence.