Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings

Guyana

Guyana - Criminal Law (Offences) Act 1894 (2014) EN

PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE 2 – PUNISHMENTS

18. Where the Court sentences any person to undergo a term of imprisonment for an indictable offence, and that person is already undergoing, or has been at the same sitting of the Court sentenced to undergo, imprisonment for another offence, the Court may direct that the imprisonment shall commence at the expiration of the imprisonment which the person is then undergoing, or has been so previously sentenced to undergo, as aforesaid.

Rome Statute

Article 78 Determination of the sentence

3. When a person has been convicted of more than one crime, the Court shall pronounce a sentence for each crime and a joint sentence specifying the total period of imprisonment. This period shall be no less than the highest individual sentence pronounced and shall not exceed 30 years imprisonment or a sentence of life imprisonment in conformity with article 77, paragraph 1 (b).