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Coroners and Justice Bill

90: After Clause 127, insert the following new Clause— "Imprisonment and detention for public protection (1) Sentences of imprisonment or detention for public protection under section 225 or 226 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) (indeterminate sentences) shall not be imposed after the date on which this Act is passed. (2) Indeterminate sentences imposed on any person before that date shall be treated as having expired on whichever is the later of— (a) three months after that date; or (b) the end of the maximum term of imprisonment or detention which could have been imposed on that person in the absence of a power to impose indeterminate sentences. (3) Subsection (2) does not alter the notional minimal term (as defined in section 225 or 226 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) of an indeterminate sentence."