C1Part 9Sentencing: Principles and Procedures

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

Service detention and custodial sentences

I1I2245Section 244: supplementary

1

Subsections (2) to (5) apply for the purposes of section 244.

2

A person is to be regarded as not subject to any sentence from which he has been released early.

3

A person is to be regarded as not subject to a suspended sentence of service detention unless an order that the sentence shall take effect has been made.

4

Subject to subsection (3), a person is to be regarded as subject to any sentence of service detention that has been passed on him but—

a

has not taken effect; or

b

as a result of section 290(5) or (6) or 291(6) or (7), has ceased to have effect and has not resumed effect.

5

A person who has been detained continuously pursuant to two or more sentences of service detention is to be regarded as subject to all of those sentences (whether or not any of them has been served in full).

6

For the purposes of subsection (5), any periods of detention which would be continuous but for section 290(3), (5) or (6) or 291(5), (6) or (7) are to be treated as continuous.