Schedule 18 (release of prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment or detention for public protection) shall have effect.
Cases considering section 230 4
Salte, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Justice & Anor
Brings detention for public protection within the statutory parole provisions by including it within the definition of life prisoner. (see para [10])
Secretary of State for Justice (Respondent) v James (FC) (Appellant) (formerly Walker and another) R (on the application of Lee) (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Justice (Respondent) and one other action
The provision formed part of the machinery applying the life-prisoner release regime to prisoners serving an IPP. (see para [104])
Mackie v R
The court referred to this provision as part of the mechanism introducing the post-release licence regime for imprisonment for public protection. That regime was relevant to the comparative onerousness of the sentences. (see para [8])
What each judgment says about section 230 is in the case-law panel in the full Act.
Explanatory note
Amendments and notes
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Commencement
- I96S. 230 wholly in force at 4.4.2005, see s. 336(3) and S.I. 2005/950, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 18 (subject to art. 2(2), Sch. 2)
560.This section introduces Schedule 18 which sets out the release provisions for the sentences for public protection.