Part 12

Sentencing
Chapter 5

Dangerous offenders

Certificates of convictions for purposes of section 229
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Where—
a
on any date after the commencement of this section a person is convicted in England and Wales of a relevant offence, and
b
the court by or before which he is so convicted states in open court that he has been convicted of such an offence on that date, and
c
that court subsequently certifies that fact,
that certificate shall be evidence, for the purposes of section 229, that he was convicted of such an offence on that date.