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Version date: 29 June 2021 - onwards
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1. Offences aggravated by terrorist connection

(1) The Sentencing Code is amended as set out in subsections (2) and (3).

(2) In section 69 (offences aggravated by terrorist connection) -

(a) in subsection (1), for the words from "specified" to the end substitute "within subsection (4) or (5)";

(b) after subsection (3) insert -

"(4) An offence is within this subsection if it -

(a) was committed on or after the day on which section 1 of the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 came into force,

(b) is punishable on indictment with imprisonment for more than 2 years, and

(c) is not specified in Schedule A1.

(5) An offence is within this subsection if it -

(a) was committed before the day on which section 1 of the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 came into force, and

(b) is specified in Schedule 1.

(6) Where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of 2 or more days, or at some time during a period of 2 or more days, it must be taken for the purposes of subsections (4) and (5) to have been committed on the last of those days."

(3) Before Schedule 1 insert, as Schedule A1, the Schedule set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this Act.