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The Sentencing Act 2020 is a landmark Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act has 14 Parts and 29 Schedules. Parts 2 to 13 of the Act together make up a code called the “Sentencing Code”. [1] The Sentencing Code is the law which contains the main sentencing regime in England and Wales.
The intention of the act was to correct minor errors and to streamline the law in respect of areas which are to be consolidated under the Sentencing Act 2020. The overall purpose of the law (together with the Sentencing Act 2020) is to remove historic and redundant layers of sentencing procedural legislation without introducing new sentencing law.
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In response to these developments, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduced the 100-1 crack-to-powder ratio to 18-1 and ended mandatory minimum sentencing for simple possession of cocaine.
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An Act to authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2021; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2020. [a]
In the magistrates' court, this is contained in section 142 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980; [27] the equivalent power in the Crown Court is section 385 of the Sentencing Act 2020, [28] and can only be exercised within 56 days of sentencing, and must be done by the same judge who passed sentence.