The Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025
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2 Amendment of Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code
(1) Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code (determination of minimum term in relation to mandatory life sentence for murder etc.) is amended as follows. (2) In paragraph 9— (a) after sub-paragraph (ba), insert— (bb) where the offence was committed on or after the day on which the Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025 came into force, the fact that the murder was connected with— (i) the end of the offender’s intimate personal relationship with the victim, (ii) the victim intending to bring about the end of that intimate personal relationship, or (iii) a belief by the offender as to a thing mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), ; (b) after sub-paragraph (c), insert— (ca) where the offence was committed on or after the day on which the Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025 came into force, the fact that the murder involved strangulation, suffocation or asphyxiation, .
2 Amendment of Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code
(1) Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code (determination of minimum term in relation to mandatory life sentence for murder etc.) is amended as follows. (2) In paragraph 9— (a) after sub-paragraph (ba), insert— (bb) where the offence was committed on or after the day on which the Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025 came into force, the fact that the murder was connected with— (i) the end of the offender’s intimate personal relationship with the victim, (ii) the victim intending to bring about the end of that intimate personal relationship, or (iii) a belief by the offender as to a thing mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), ; (b) after sub-paragraph (c), insert— (ca) where the offence was committed on or after the day on which the Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025 came into force, the fact that the murder involved strangulation, suffocation or asphyxiation, .
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