'National penalties - maximum penalty' in document 'Antigua and Barbuda - Criminal Procedure Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART VIII
PUNISHMENT - IMPRISONMENT

57. Mode of punishment for felony not capital.

If any person be convicted of felony not punishable with death, committed after a previous conviction for felony, such person shall, on subsequent conviction, be imprisoned for any term not exceeding seven years, with or without hard labour, unless some other punishment be directed by any statute for the particular offence, in which case the offender shall be liable to the punishment thereby awarded, and not to any other.

PART VIII
PUNISHMENT - IMPRISONMENT

61. Punishment of felonies less than capital.

Every person convicted of felony, not punishable with death, shall be punished in the manner (if any) prescribed by the statute, or statutes, especially relating to such felony, and every person convicted of any felony, for which no punishment is specially provided, shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding seven years.