254Savings for powers to mitigate sentence etc
(1)Nothing in any of sections 242, 243, 248, 249, 250, 256, 258, 260, 261, 265 and 270 prevents a court or officer from mitigating an offender’s sentence by taking into account any such matters as, in the court’s or officer’s opinion, are relevant in mitigation of sentence.
(2)Nothing in those sections prevents a court or officer from mitigating any punishment included in an offender’s sentence by taking into account any other punishment included in that sentence.
(3)Nothing in those sections or section 255 prevents a court, in the case of an offender who is convicted of one or more other offences, from mitigating his sentence by applying any rule of law as to the totality of sentences.
(4)Subsections (2) and (3) do not affect the generality of subsection (1).