121 Sentencing ranges
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (2009 c 25) | Legislation

121  Sentencing ranges

(1)     When exercising functions under section 120, the Council is to have regard to the desirability of sentencing guidelines which relate to a particular offence being structured in the way described in subsections (2) to (9).

(2)     The guidelines should, if reasonably practicable given the nature of the offence, describe, by reference to one or more of the factors mentioned in subsection (3), different categories of case involving the commission of the offence which illustrate in general terms the varying degrees of seriousness with which the offence may be committed.

(3)     Those factors are—

(a)     the offender's culpability in committing the offence;

(b)     the harm caused, or intended to be caused or which might foreseeably have been caused, by the offence;

(c)     such other factors as the Council considers to be particularly relevant to the seriousness of the offence in question.

(4)     The guidelines should—

(a)     specify the range of sentences (“the offence range”) which, in the opinion

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