Legislation – The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 33) and Sentencing Act 2020 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022

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Amendment of the Environmental Protection Act 19907.

(1)

The Environmental Protection Act 19904 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 141 (power to regulate the importation or exportation of waste or the transit of waste for export) after subsection (5A) there is inserted—

“(5AA)

Regulations under this section that—

(a)

make provision for a summary offence under the law of England and Wales to be punishable with imprisonment for more than 6 months (“the relevant provision”), and

(b)

are made—

(i)

on or after 2 May 2022, but

(ii)

before the day on which section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 comes into force,

must also provide that, in relation to an offence committed before the day referred to in paragraph (b)(ii), any reference in the relevant provision to a term of imprisonment of more than 6 months is to be read as a reference to a term of imprisonment of 6 months.”.