What is Section 281(5)? Lurking amongst many criminal offences, ready to be triggered by a commencement regulation, are references to s.281(5) Criminal Justice Act 2003. This section extends the maximum sentence for summary offences, whose previous (or rather current) maximum was 6 months, to 51 weeks. The relevant part reads as follows: (4) Subsection (5) applies to any summary offence […]