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| parliament = United Kingdom | 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. | year = 2012 | statute_book_chapter =10 | introduced_by = Mike Weatherley MP | territorial_extent = England, Wales & Scotland | royal_assent = 1 May 2012 | commencement = | repeal_date = | amendments = | related_legislation = | repealing_legislation = | status = | original_text = http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/contents/enacted | legislation_history = http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-12/legalaidsentencingandpunishmentofoffenders.html | use_new_UK-LEG = yes | revised_text = http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/contents/ }} The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) is a statute of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, creating reforms to the justice system. The bill for the act was introduced in the House of Commons on 21 June 2011, and received Royal Assent on 1 May 2012. == Measures == Among other measures, the act: * gives courts greater discretion to issue conditional discharges for young persons pleading guilty to a first offence * creates a "single remand framework" for the use of secure remand for children and young people; transfers the cost of remand arrangements to local authorities; creates new conditions that must be met before a child or young person is remanded into custody * expands Youth Rehabilitation Orders (YROs) to allow longer curfew hours, single duration extensions of six months; increases the maximum fines for breaches; and allows courts to order a period of supervision instead of custody following a breach * abolishes the Legal Services Commission, a non-departmental public body, and replaces it with the Legal Aid Agency, a new executive agency of the Ministry of Justice * removes financial support for most cases involving housing, welfare, medical negligence, employment, debt and immigration * creates a new offence of squatting in a residential building, with a maximum punishment of 51 weeks' imprisonment, a fine not exceeding level 5 of the standard scale (£5,000), or both; and amends the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to allow the police to enter and search such a building if they suspect someone to be squatting in it * brings the sentencing starting point for murders caused by hate on the grounds of disability or transgender to 30 years, to be in line with other types of hate crime * modifies the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 to allow the Secretary of State to deport foreign nationals serving indeterminate prison sentences, once they have served the minimum term. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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