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| Long title | An Act to make provision about legal aid; to make further provision about funding legal services; to make provision about costs and other amounts awarded in civil and criminal proceedings; to make provision about referral fees in connection with the provision of legal services; to make provision about sentencing offenders, including provision about release on licence or otherwise; to make provision about the collection of fines and other sums; to make provision about bail and about remand otherwise than on bail; to make provision about the employment, payment and transfer of persons detained in prisons and other institutions; to make provision about penalty notices for disorderly behaviour and cautions; to make provision about the rehabilitation of offenders; to create new offences of threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises and of causing serious injury by dangerous driving; to create a new offence relating to squatting; to increase penalties for offences relating to scrap metal dealing and to create a new offence relating to payment for scrap metal; and to amend section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. |
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| Citation | 2012 c. 10 |
| Introduced by | Kenneth Clarke |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 1 May 2012 |
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| Repeals/revokes | Criminal Defence Service (Advice and Assistance) Act 2001 |
Status: Current legislation | |
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| Text of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. | |
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) (LASPO[2]) is a statute of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted by the coalition government of 2010-2015, creating reforms to the justice system.[3] The bill for the act was introduced in the House of Commons on 21 June 2011, and received Royal Assent on 1 May 2012.[3]
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