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Part 12Sentencing

Chapter 6Release on licence

Restriction on consecutive sentences for released prisoners

265Restriction on consecutive sentences for released prisoners

(1)A court sentencing a person to a term of imprisonment may not order or direct that the term is to commence on the expiry of any other sentence of imprisonment from which he has been released early under this Chapter.

(2)In this section “sentence of imprisonment” includes a sentence of detention under section 91 of the Sentencing Act or section 228 of this Act, and “term of imprisonment” is to be read accordingly.