Part VCustodial sentences etc.

Chapter VSuspended sentences of imprisonment

Suspended sentences of imprisonment

120Court by which suspended sentence may be dealt with

1

An offender may be dealt with in respect of a suspended sentence by the Crown Court or, where the sentence was passed by a magistrates' court, by any magistrates' court before which he appears or is brought.

2

Where an offender is convicted by a magistrates' court of an offence punishable with imprisonment and the court is satisfied that the offence was committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence passed by the Crown Court—

a

the court may, if it thinks fit, commit him in custody or on bail to the Crown Court; and

b

if it does not, shall give written notice of the conviction to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court.

3

For the purposes of this section and of section 121 below, a suspended sentence passed on an offender on appeal shall be treated as having been passed by the court by which he was originally sentenced.