Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

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23(1)Section 246 (power to release prisoners on licence early) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)In subsection (1)—

(a)in paragraph (a), omit “, other than an intermittent custody prisoner,”;

(b)omit paragraph (b) and the word “and” preceding it.

(3)Omit subsection (3).

(4)In subsection (4)(i), omit from “or, where the sentence is one of intermittent custody” to the end.

(5)In subsection (5)—

(a)in paragraph (a), omit “or (b), (3)”;

(b)in paragraph (c), omit “or (3)(b)(ii)”.

(6)In subsection (6)—

(a)omit the definition of “the required custodial days”;

(b)in the definition of “the requisite custodial period”, omit “other than a sentence of intermittent custody” and “, (b)”;

(c)omit the definition of “sentence of intermittent custody”.