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Title and introductory text
2025 No. 1071
CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025
Made
2nd October 2025
Coming into force
23rd October 2025
The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 19(1) of Schedule 23 to the Sentencing Act 2020 (“the Act”).
The Lord Chancellor has consulted the Sentencing Council for England and Wales in accordance with paragraph 19(2) of Schedule 23 to the Act.
In accordance with section 407(7) of, and paragraph 19(4) of Schedule 23 to, the Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
Propose a change1 Citation, commencement and extent
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force 21 days after the day on which they are made.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.
Propose a change2 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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