CHAPTER 34
SENTENCE

Cumulative or concurrent sentences

310. (1) When a person is at any trial convicted of two or more offences or when a person under sentence or undergoing sentence is convicted of another offence, the court may sentence that person to such several punishments for such offences or to the punishment for such other offence, as the court is competent to impose.

(2) Subject to section 86(2) of the Prisons Act, 1998 (Act No. 17 of 1998), punishments referred to in subsection (1), when consisting of imprisonment, commence the one after the expiration, setting aside or remission of the other, in such order as the court may direct, unless the court directs that such sentences of imprisonment must run concurrently.

(3) Punishments referred to in subsection (1), when consisting of correctional supervision, commence the one after the expiration, setting aside or remission of the other, in such order as the court may direct, unless the court directs that such punishments of correctional supervision must run concurrently, but if such punishments in the aggregate exceed a period of three years, a period of not more than three years from the date on which the first of those punishments has commenced must be served, unless the court, when imposing sentence, otherwise directs.