PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 156
Cumulative orders of imprisonment
PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 156
Cumulative orders of imprisonment
156 Cumulative orders of imprisonment
(1) If—
(a) an offender is serving, or has been sentenced to serve,
imprisonment for an offence; and
(b) is sentenced to serve imprisonment for
another offence;
the imprisonment for the other offence may be directed to
start from the end of the period of imprisonment the offender is serving, or
has been sentenced to serve.
(2) Subsection (1) applies whether the
imprisonment for the first offence is being served concurrently or
cumulatively with imprisonment for another offence.