What the fucking hell is this?
Let me get this straight…
We currently have before Parliament, a new bill – the Legislative and Regulatory Refrom Bill – which will allow Ministers to ‘amend, repeal or replace legislation in any way that an Act of Parliament may do’ by Ministerial Order – without the time and trouble of taking a bill through Parliament.
No time to look into this in detail tonight but one clause did catch my eye –
6. Criminal penalties
(1) Provision under section 2(1) may not create a new offence that is punishable, or increase the penalty for an existing offence so that it is punishable—
(a) on indictment, with imprisonment for a term exceeding two years; or
(b) on summary conviction, with—
(i) imprisonment for a term exceeding the normal maximum term;
or
(ii) a fine exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2)In subsection (1)(b)(i), “the normal maximum term
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