Taking time on remand into account

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If when the offender is being sentenced to a term of detention for an offence —

(a)

he or she has previously spent time in custody in respect of that offence and for no other reason; and

(b)

the court decides that that time should be taken into account,

the court may take that time into account —

(c)

if it imposes a set term of detention, by reducing that term by an appropriate period; or

(d)

by ordering that the term it imposes is to be taken to have begun on a specified day being the day when that custody began or on some later date that is not later than the date of the sentence.

[Section 119 inserted: No. 29 of 1998 s. 22.]

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119 Taking time on remand into account