Sentencing for multiple offences
26 Sentencing for multiple offences
If a person is to be sentenced by a court for a number of offences, the court may sentence the person to the 1 penalty for all or some of those offences, but the sentence cannot exceed the total of the maximum penalties that could be imposed in respect of each of the offences to which the sentence relates.
If—
the person being sentenced is a serious child sex offender;
and
any of the offences for which the person is being sentenced is a triggering child sex offence; and
the person is sentenced to a sentence of indeterminate duration in relation to that triggering child sex offence, then subsection (1) does not apply to the sentencing of the person for that offence (but nothing in this subsection affects the operation of subsection (1) in respect of the other offences).
If any of the offences for which the person is being sentenced is a prescribed designated offence, subsection (1) does not apply to the sentencing of the person for that offence (but nothing in this subsection affects the operation of subsection (1) in respect of the other offences).
If any of the offences in respect of which a single sentence is being imposed under this section—
involve different victims; or
were committed on different occasions, the court must indicate the sentence that would have been imposed in respect of each such offence had this provision not been applied.
In this section—
prescribed designated offence has the same meaning as in section 96.
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