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SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 16 Time held in custody before trial, &c., to be taken into account

SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 16

Time held in custody before trial, &c., to be taken into account

(1)  A court that is sentencing an offender to a term of imprisonment for an offence –
(a) must take into account any period of time during which the offender was held in custody in relation to proceedings for, or arising from, that offence; and
(b) may order that the sentence of imprisonment is to commence on a day earlier than the day on which it is imposed.
(2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to –
(a) a period of custody of less than one day; or
(b) a sentence of imprisonment of less than one day; or
(c) a sentence of imprisonment that has been wholly suspended or the suspended part of a partly suspended sentence of imprisonment.
(d) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .