Excluded Sentences

Convictions resulting in the following sentences can never become spent:

• A sentence of imprisonment, youth custody detention in a young offender institution or corrective training, for a term of more than two and a half years.
  
• A sentence of imprisonment for life
  
• A sentence of preventive detention.
  
• A sentence of imprisonment or detention for public protection, or an extended sentence under the Criminal Justice Act 2003
  
• Detention during Her Majesty’s pleasure or for life, or a sentence of custody for life.
  
• A sentence of detention for more than two and a half years in the case of a youth convicted of a grave crime
  
• Certain court-martial and military punishments