C1Part 9Sentencing: Principles and Procedures

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Chapter 1Principles and Procedures applying to Service Courts and Summary Hearings

Savings

I1I2254Savings 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).