Criminal Procedure Code 2010 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 16 · Sentences
306. Sentence in case of conviction for several offences at one trial
Feedback & supportWhere a person is convicted at one trial of any 2 or more distinct offences, the court must sentence the person for those offences to the punishments that it is competent to impose.
court
“court” means the Court of Appeal, the General Division of the High Court, a Family Court, a Youth Court, a District Court or a Magistrate’s Court (as the case may be) which exercises criminal jurisdiction;
Subject to section 307 and subsection (4), where these punishments consist of imprisonment, they are to run consecutively in the order that the court directs, or they may run concurrently if the court so directs.
subject
“subject” means a person who enters into a DPA with the Public Prosecutor.
The court need not send the offender for trial before a higher court merely because the combined punishment for the various offences exceeds the punishment which the court is competent to inflict for a single offence.
Subject to any written law, a Magistrate’s Court or District Court may not impose a total term of imprisonment that exceeds twice that which such court is competent to impose under section 303.