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SENTENCING ACT - SECT 60

Sentences of imprisonment - whether concurrent or cumulative

60. Sentences of imprisonment - whether concurrent or cumulative

(1) A court which imposes a term of imprisonment for an offence against a law of the Territory on an offender already undergoing a sentence or sentences of imprisonment for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth shall direct when the new term commences, which shall be no later than immediately after:

(a) the completion of that sentence or those sentences if a non-parole period or pre-release period (as defined in Part lB of the Crimes Act 1914 of the Commonwealth) was not fixed in respect of it or them; or

(b) the end of that period, if one was fixed.

(2) This section has effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Act.



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