PART VII
PROCEDURE IN TRIALS BEFORE SUBORDINATE COURTS

(a) Provisions relating to the Hearing and Determination of Cases

237. Without prejudice to the generality of section 236, a subordinate court presided over by a resident magistrate may, subject to the provisions of this section, for the purpose of assessing the proper sentence to be passed, take into consideration any other offence committed by the accused–

(a) if it has been explained by the court to the accused person in ordinary language that the sentence to be passed upon him for the offence of which he has been convicted in those proceedings may be greater if the other offence is taken into consideration; and

(b) after the explanation the accused person–

(i) admits the commission of the other offence; and
(ii) asks the court to take the other offence into consideration.

(3) Nothing in this section shall entitle a court which has taken an offence into consideration to pass upon an accused person any sentence in excess of the maximum sentence which may be awarded by that court for the offence of which that person was convicted in those proceedings.