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(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any court which makes an order or issues a warrant for the detention of any person in a detention centre may direct that the term of detention under the order or warrant shall commence on the expiration of any other term for which that person is liable to be detained in a detention centre by virtue of an order or warrant made or issued by that or any other court.
(2)A direction shall not be given under subsection (1) of this section in connection with the making of an order under section four of this Act where the offender is under seventeen years of age.
(3)Where a direction under subsection (1) of this section is given in connection with the making of an order under section four of this Act, the term of detention specified in that order may, if the court thinks fit, be a term of less than three months; and where a direction under that subsection is given in connection with the making of an order or the issue of a warrant under section five of this Act in respect of a person under seventeen years of age, the term of detention specified in that order or warrant may, if the court thinks fit, be a term of less than one month.
(4)The aggregate of the terms for which a person may be ordered to be detained in a detention centre by virtue of any two or more orders made by the same court on the same occasion shall not in any case exceed six months.
(5)Without prejudice to subsection (4) of this section, the total term for which a person may be detained in a detention centre shall not exceed nine months at a time; and accordingly so much of any term for which a person is ordered to be so detained as, together with any other term on which it is wholly or partly consecutive, exceeds nine months shall be treated as remitted.
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