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SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 11

11. Court may impose single, general or mixed sentence

      (1) A court may impose on an offender who has been convicted of more than one offence specified in one or more complaints or indictments –

(a) one sentence for all of those offences; or

(b) a separate sentence for each of those offences; or

(c) one sentence for a group of those offences determined by the court and –

(i) one sentence for all of the remaining offences; or

(ii) a separate sentence for each of the remaining offences; or

(iii) a separate sentence for each other group of the offences remaining as the court determines and a separate sentence for each offence remaining, if any, as is not within any such group.

      (2) In imposing a single sentence on an offender for more than one offence, a court must not impose a penalty exceeding the sum of the maximum penalties that could otherwise have been imposed for those offences.



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