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(1)For the purposes of section 246(1) offences are related if the charges for them were founded on the same facts or evidence.
(2)It is immaterial for the purposes of section 246(1) whether the offender has also been kept in service custody in connection with other offences, or has also been detained in connection with other matters.
(3)For the purposes of section 246 a suspended sentence of imprisonment or a suspended sentence of service detention—
(a)is to be treated as a sentence of imprisonment or (as the case may be) service detention when an order that it shall take effect is made; and
(b)is to be treated as being imposed by that order.
(4)Subsections (5) to (7) apply for the purposes of the reference in section 246(2) to the term of imprisonment or detention to which a person has been sentenced (that is to say, the reference to his “sentence”).
(5)Consecutive terms of service detention, and terms of service detention which are wholly or partly concurrent, are to be treated as a single term.
(6)Consecutive relevant custodial terms, and relevant custodial terms which are wholly or partly concurrent, are to be treated as a single term if—
(a)the sentences were passed on the same occasion; or
(b)where they were passed on different occasions, the person has not been released under Chapter 6 of Part 12 of the 2003 Act at any time during the period beginning with the first and ending with the last of those occasions.
(7)For the purposes of subsection (6) any sentence within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of section 188(4) is a relevant custodial term.
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