323 Minimum term order: other life sentences
Sentencing Act 2020 (2020 c 17) | Legislation

323  Minimum term order: other life sentences

(1)     This section applies where a court—

(a)     passes a life sentence in circumstances in which the sentence is not fixed by law, and

(b)     makes a minimum term order.

[(1A)     The starting point, in determining the minimum term, is the relevant portion of the notional determinate sentence.

(1B)     The “notional determinate sentence”, in relation to a life sentence, is the custodial sentence that the court would have imposed if the court had not imposed the life sentence.

(1C)     The “relevant portion” of the notional determinate sentence is—

(a)     where that sentence is within section 247A(2A) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (terrorist prisoners not entitled to early release), the term that the court would have determined as the appropriate custodial term (within the meaning given by subsection (8) of that section);

(b)     where that sentence is a sentence under section 252A, 254, 265, 266, 278 or 279 (and is not within paragraph (a)), two-thirds of the term that the court

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