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SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 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.
(3)  If a court imposes a single sentence on an offender for more than one child sexual offence, the court is to identify the sentence that would have been imposed for each child sexual offence, had separate sentences been imposed.



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