'Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings' in document 'Poland - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

Chapter I
Principles of penal liability

Article 11.

§ 2. If an act has features specified in two or more provisions of penal law, the court shall
sentence the perpetrator for one offence on the basis of all concurrent provisions.

§ 3. In the case specified in § 2 the court shall impose the penalty on the basis of the provision
providing for the most severe penalty, which shall not prevent the court from imposing other measures
provided for in law on the basis of all concurrent provisions.

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER IX. Concurrence of offences and aggregation of penalties and penal measures

Article 85. If the perpetrator committed two or more offences, before the first, even not yet valid
judgement was rendered with regard to any of these offences, and for which basic penalties of the same kind were imposed, the court shall impose an aggregate penalty taking as a basis the separate penalties imposed for the offences which are so aggregated.

Article 86. § 1. The court shall impose an aggregate penalty within the highest limit of the
penalties imposed for individual offences, but which do not exceed 540 times the daily fine, 18 months
restriction of liberty or 15 years of deprivation of liberty ; the aggregated penalty of fine specified in Article 71 § 1 may not exceed 180 times the daily fine if it is connected with a suspension of the execution of a penalty of deprivation of liberty, and may not exceed 90 times the daily fine if it is associated with a suspension of the execution of a penalty of restriction of liberty.