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69The court, in considering the case of an existing transferred life prisoner—
(a)who is serving more than one sentence of imprisonment for life; and
(b)two or more of whose life sentences were imposed in proceedings on a single indictment or corresponding document,
shall, in making the order under paragraph 59 above, proceed as if the prisoner had been sentenced in Scotland and section 205D of the 1995 Act had been in force at the time the prisoner was sentenced.
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