[5] As no amendments were tabled and no Lords requested a committee stage, Baroness Donaghy moved that the order of commitment be discharged.

[3] The Act was widely applauded,[8] with Norfolk Chief Constable Simon Bailey welcoming the change saying that "the figures [of assaults on officers] are really worrying".

[9] However, on 14 September 2018, Hodge Jones & Allen solicitors published a piece titled "Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 – Not Quite the Legislation it Seems".

[10] The article highlighted that although the Act would double the prison sentence for those assaulting emergency workers, that Section 1(4) ensured this would only be enabled by the enactment of Section 154 (General limit on magistrates' court's power to impose imprisonment) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

[13] Only between these dates was it was possible for an assault on an emergency worker to be sentenced to more than six months if the case was tried in the magistrates' court.