CHAPTER 91
PART II
POWER OF COURTS
9. (1) When a person is convicted at one trial of two or more distinct offences, the court may sentence him for such offences to the several punishments prescribed therefor which such court is competent to impose. Subject to the provisions hereafter in this section contained, a court imposing imprisonment on any person for an offence may order that such imprisonment shall commence on the expiration of any other term of imprisonment imposed, by that court or any other court, for any other offence.
(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, the aggregate of the terms of any consecutive sentences of imprisonment so imposed by a magistrate's court-
(a) when the court is presided over by the Chief Magistrate or a stipendiary and circuit magistrate, exercising the jurisdiction conferred by section 214 of this Code, shall not exceedriiHIfive years; and
(b) in any other case, shall not exceed six months.
(3) The limitations imposed by subsection (2) of this section shall not operate to reduce the aggregate of the terms of imprisonment which a magistrate's court may impose in respect of any offences below the terms which that court has power to impose in respect of any one of these offences.
(4) When a person has been sentenced by a magistrate's court to imprisonment and a fine for the same offence, a period of imprisonment for non-payment of the fine, or for want of sufficient distress to satisfy the fine, shall not be subject to the limitations imposed by subsection (2) of this section, and any such imprisonment for non-payment of a fine may be ordered by the court to commence at the end of any other term of imprisonment.
referred to in Part I of the Third Schedule or any offence referred to in the Fourth
Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings
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