New section 51A
53 New section 51A
After section 51
insert
51A Commencement of sentences imposed in cross-border proceedings
This section applies if an offender:
(a) is convicted of one or more offences in a cross-border proceeding of a prescribed court of the Territory; and
is sentenced to imprisonment for one or more of those offences.
(2) If, at the time of conviction, the offender is serving or yet to serve one or more sentences of imprisonment under the law of another participating jurisdiction (the interstate sentences), each of the sentences mentioned in subsection (1)(b) (the Territory sentences) must be served concurrently with the interstate sentences unless the court specifies differently under subsection (3).
(3) The court may specify when one or more of the Territory sentences commences.
For subsection (3):
(a) none of the Territory sentences can commence later than the end of the last interstate sentence to end; and
(b) if a non-parole period applies in respect of any of the interstate sentences – the first Territory sentence to commence after the end of the non-parole period must commence immediately after the end of that period.
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