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2014 No. 423 (C. 18)

Rehabilitation Of Offenders

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, Saving Provision and Specification of Commencement Date) Order 2014

Made

26th February 2014

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 141(12) and 151(1) and (5)(b) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012(1):

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, Saving Provision and Specification of Commencement Date) Order 2014.

(2) In this Order—

(a)“the 1974 Act” means the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(2);

(b)“the 2012 Act” means the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; and

(c)“road traffic endorsement” means an order for endorsement made by a court in relation to an offence mentioned in Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(3) (which is a sentence in relation to which the last entry in Table A in section 5(2) of the 1974 Act(4) applies).

Provisions coming into force on 10th March 2014

2.  Subject to article 3, the following provisions of the 2012 Act come into force on 10th March 2014—

(a)section 139 (establishment or alteration of rehabilitation periods);

(b)section 141 (transitional and consequential provision) in so far as not already in force; and

(c)Schedule 25 (rehabilitation of offenders: consequential provision) except paragraph 4 (which omits section 3 of the 1974 Act(5)) (special provision with respect to certain disposals by children’s hearings under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968)).

Saving provision in relation to road traffic endorsements

3.  The provisions brought into force by virtue of article 2 except section 139(5)(b) of the 2012 Act (which omits section 6(6) of the 1974 Act) are of no effect in relation to a road traffic endorsement.

Specification of commencement date for the purposes of section 141(1) to (6) of the 2012 Act

4.  The commencement date for the purposes of section 141(1) to (6) of the 2012 Act is 10th March 2014.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

Jeremy Wright

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

26th February 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is the ninth commencement order made under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) (“the 2012 Act”).

Article 2 brings into force on 10th March 2014 sections 139 and 141(1) to (6), (10) and (11) of the 2012 Act together with Schedule 25 to that Act (with the exception of paragraph 4). Those provisions make amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (c. 53) (“the 1974 Act”) and make consequential amendments to other legislation. Article 2 is subject to the saving provision in Article 3.

Article 3 makes saving provision for an endorsement given by a court for an offence mentioned in Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 53) (“the 1988 Act”). Such an endorsement is a sentence in relation to which the last entry in Table A in section 5(2) of the 1974 Act applies. The principal effect of this saving provision is that such an endorsement continues to attract a rehabilitation period of 5 years.

Article 3 also provides that the saving provision does not apply to the commencement of section 139(5)(b) of the 2012 Act, which omits section 6(6) of the 1974 Act. The effect of the omission of section 6(6) of the 1974 Act is that summary offences and other offences in that subsection are taken into account when calculating the rehabilitation period under section 6(4) where a person is convicted of a further offence. The effect of article 3 is therefore that a conviction resulting in an endorsement given by a court in relation to an offence mentioned in Schedule 2 to the 1988 Act is affected by the omission of section 6(6) of the 1974 Act in the same way as any other conviction.

Article 4 specifies 10th March 2014 as the commencement date for the purposes of section 141(1) to (6) of the 2012 Act.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

ProvisionDate of CommencementS.I. No.
Part 1 (in so far as not already in force, except section 19(4))1st April 20132013/453
Section 38(2)4th March 20132013/453
Section 44 (for the purpose of making orders, regulations or rules of court)19th January 20132013/77
Section 44 (in so far as not already in force)1st April 20132013/77
Section 45(1) and (8)1st October 20122012/2412
Section 45 (in so far as not already in force for the purpose of making orders, regulations or rules of court)19th January 20132013/77
Section 45 (in so far as not already in force)1st April 20132013/77
Section 46 (for the purpose of making orders, regulations or rules of court)19th January 20132013/77
Section 46 (in so far as not already in force)1st April 20132013/77
Section 471st April 20132013/77
Section 4819th January 20132013/77
Section 491st April 20132013/773
Section 501st April 20132013/773
Section 511st April 20132013/773
Section 521st April 20132013/773
Section 531st April 20132013/773
Section 541st April 20132013/773
Section 551st October 20122012/2412
Section 561st April 20132013/453
Section 571st April 20132013/453
Section 584th March 20132013/453
Section 591st April 20132013/453
Section 604th March 20132013/453
Section 611st October 20122012/2412
Section 621st October 20122012/2412
Chapter 1 of Part 3 (except sections 67(2)(a) and (5)(a), 76, 77, 78(3) and 85 to 88)3rd December 20122012/2906
Section 888th April 20132013/453
Chapter 2 of Part 33rd December 20122012/2906
Chapter 3 of Part 33rd December 20122012/2906
Chapter 4 of Part 3 (except section 119)3rd December 20122012/2906
Chapter 5 of Part 33rd December 20122012/2906
Chapter 6 of Part 3 (except section 129)3rd December 20122012/2906
Section 1328th April 20132013/453
Section 1338th April 20132013/453
Section 1348th April 20132013/453
Section 1358th April 20132013/453
Section 1368th April 20132013/453
Section 1378th April 20132013/453
Section 1388th April 20132013/453
Section 1401st October 20122012/2412
Section 141(7) to (9) and (12)1st October 20122012/2412
Section 1423rd December 20122012/2770
Section 1433rd December 20122012/2770
Section 1441st September 20122012/1956
Section 1453rd December 20122012/2770
Section 1463rd December 20122012/2770
Section 1473rd December 20122012/2770
Section 14814th May 20132012/1127
Schedule 11st April 20132013/453
Schedule 21st April 20132013/453
Schedule 31st April 20132013/453
Schedule 44th March 20132013/453
Schedule 51st April 20132013/453
Schedule 61st April 20132013/453
Schedule 71st October 20122012/2412
Schedule 81st October 20122012/2412
Schedule 93rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 103rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 113rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 123rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 133rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 143rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 153rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 163rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 173rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 183rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 193rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 203rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 213rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 223rd December 20122012/2906
Schedule 238th April 20132013/453
Schedule 248th April 20132013/453
Schedule 263rd December 20122012/2770
Schedule 273rd December 20122012/2770
(3)

1988 c. 53. Schedule 2 to that Act has been amended, in so far as it relates to endorsements, by paragraphs 2, 7, 19, 21, 23 and 30 of Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), section 3(1) of the Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Act 1992 (c. 40) and sections 18(6), 20(4), 21(3) and 28 of the Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49). Section 56(4) of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) amends Schedule 2 but is not yet in force. There have been other amendments that are not relevant.

(4)

The heading of Table A was amended by paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 8 and paragraph 22(2) of Schedule 12 to the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53). The last entry in Table A was amended by paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 4 to the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (c. 23).

(5)

Section 3 of the 1974 Act was amended, in relation to Scotland, by paragraph 23(2) of Schedule 4 to the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36). Section 3 was also modified, in relation to Scotland, by article 2(3) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Rehabilitation of Offenders) (Transitory Provisions) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/146).

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