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Sentencing Act 1991
113AMaximum term of imprisonment for summary offence
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113A Maximum term of imprisonment for summary offence
S. 113A(1) amended by No. 69/1997 s. 17.
(1) If a person is convicted of a summary offence punishable, but for this section, by a term of imprisonment of more than 2 years, the maximum term of imprisonment to which a court may sentence the offender in respect of that offence is 2 years.
(2) This section has effect despite anything to the contrary in any Act.
S. 113B inserted by No. 48/1997 s. 31, amended by No. 65/2016 s. 16.