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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3U.K. Amendments of 1955 Acts and 1957 Act relating to summary appeal courts

Consecutive terms of detentionU.K.

13U.K.In section 86 of the 1957 Act (consecutive terms of imprisonment and detention) after subsection (2) there is inserted—

(2A)Where on awarding a sentence of detention (“the subsequent sentence”) the offender’s commanding officer orders under subsection (2) of this section that the subsequent sentence is to begin to run from the expiry of another sentence (“the current sentence”)—

(a)section 85A of this Act shall have effect in relation to the subsequent sentence as if the reference in subsection (2) of that section to the day on which the sentence is awarded were a reference to the expiry of the current sentence, and

(b)where the suspension of a sentence by virtue of subsection (4) or (5) of that section would end before the expiry of the current sentence, the sentence shall run from the expiry of the current sentence.