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Sentencing Act 2020

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419 Power to state effect of commencement provisions

(1) The Secretary of State may, in connection with the coming into force of an amendment or repeal made by Schedule 22 or under Schedule 23, by regulations amend this Act to secure that— (a) the Act specifies the purposes for which, or the cases in which, the amendment or repeal has effect; (b) so far as practicable, any provision of the Act which, as a result of the amendment or repeal, is to continue to have effect only for particular purposes or in particular cases remains in place instead of having effect by virtue of transitional, transitory or saving provision. (2) The regulations may make consequential amendments to any enactment. (3) Subsections (4) and (5) of section 104 of the Deregulation Act 2015 (restrictions on power to spell out dates described in legislation) apply to regulations under this section as they apply to an order under that section. (4) Subsections (4) and (6) of section 407 do not apply to the power conferred by this section. (5) In this section “enactment” includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation.

Your change, as a redline

419 Power to state effect of commencement provisions

(1) The Secretary of State may, in connection with the coming into force of an amendment or repeal made by Schedule 22 or under Schedule 23, by regulations amend this Act to secure that— (a) the Act specifies the purposes for which, or the cases in which, the amendment or repeal has effect; (b) so far as practicable, any provision of the Act which, as a result of the amendment or repeal, is to continue to have effect only for particular purposes or in particular cases remains in place instead of having effect by virtue of transitional, transitory or saving provision. (2) The regulations may make consequential amendments to any enactment. (3) Subsections (4) and (5) of section 104 of the Deregulation Act 2015 (restrictions on power to spell out dates described in legislation) apply to regulations under this section as they apply to an order under that section. (4) Subsections (4) and (6) of section 407 do not apply to the power conferred by this section. (5) In this section “enactment” includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation.

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Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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