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Rectification of sentencing errors

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Part 2Sentencing purposes, principles and factors
Division 2General sentencing provisions
Subdivision 1Procedural provisions

20 Rectification of sentencing errors

(1)

A court that imposes, or purports to impose, a sentence on a defendant, or a court of coordinate jurisdiction, may, on its own initiative or on application by the DPP or the defendant, make such orders as the court is satisfied are required to rectify an error of a technical nature made by the sentencing court in imposing, or purporting to impose, the sentence, or to supply a deficiency or remove an ambiguity in the sentencing order.

(2)

The DPP and the defendant are both parties to proceedings under this section.

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